a false spoken statement intended to damage the good opinion people have of somebody; the legal offence of making this kind of statement compare libel口头诽谤;口头诽谤罪 Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc2Many teachers saw the statement as a gross slander on their profession. 很多老师把这一言论看作是对他们职业公然的诋毁。 I might have grounds for a slander suit. 我可能有理由以诽谤罪提起诉讼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gross
- malicious
- vicious
- …
- be guilty of
- sue somebody for
- suit
- slander against
- slander on
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Greek skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’.