slander

«slander» in Mova's school dictionary: Untrue spoken words that harm someone's good name — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun or verb (slander, slanders, slandered, slandering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Untrue spoken words that harm someone's good name. tree →

2) To tell lies about someone in order to harm their name. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons a wicked person tells lies about a good young queen to the king, so that he will think badly of her

examples

• The spiteful girl spread slander about her friend. tree →
• Don't slander people by telling lies. tree →
• The old woman began to slander the young queen. tree →
• Slander can hurt a person deeply. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.
• That hath no slander upon his tongue, nor doeth evil to his fellow, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;
• Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
• He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
• Slander not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slander» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.