2. (verb)aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration an abusive attack on a person's character or goodname
3. (verb)defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the goodname and reputation of someone "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
Definition of 'slander'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)slander a false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another
4. (verb)slander to defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate
Sense: (the act of making) an untrue spoken, not written, statement about a person with the intention of damaging that person's reputation That story about her is nothing but a wicked slander!