Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a slanderous manner; with slander; calumniously; with false and malicious report.

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  • adverb In a slanderous manner; in a manner that causes slander; in a false and defamatory way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny

Etymologies

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slanderous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Others have also questioned whether overzealous activists risk slanderously and erroneously accusing people of fraud because of missing or misprinted military documents.

    Media Coverage August 2009 2010

  • Finally, I've decided that if pro-life people are allowed to slanderously refer to pro-choice individuals as "pro-death" or "pro-abortion", then we should get to refer to you as "pro-unwanted children" and "pro-poverty".

    Billboard campaign sparks race debate 2010

  • If “evolutionists” really did find no value in life, as creationists slanderously claim, why on earth would evolutionists bother to study life, let alone find enough interest get a tattoo the family tree of a taxon of finches?

    Darwin's finches - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Now some Persians spoke slanderously to Chosroes concerning Sarbaros, namely that the latter was on the side of the Romans and railed at him.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor 2009

  • Even if Annie wasn't slanderously accused of being a witch two centuries ago, why not slanderously accuse her of it now?

    The Blair Witch Problem 2006

  • They declared that all the Five Thousand were in turn to have a share in the administration; 90 and that the families of the sailors were not being outraged, as Chaereas slanderously reported, or in any way molested; they were living quietly in their several homes.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Others have suggested that Jesus is slanderously called “son of a Panther” in reference to the wild and lustful nature of his real father.

    The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

  • Others have suggested that Jesus is slanderously called “son of a Panther” in reference to the wild and lustful nature of his real father.

    The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

  • And you’ve done it slanderously yourself, because I actually just speak in a normal voice without malice.

    Think Progress » House Armed Services Chairman ‘Extremely Concerned’ With Iraq Escalation Plans 2006

  • But I have been always the same in all my actions, public as well as private, and never have I yielded any base compliance to those who are slanderously termed my disciples, or to any other.

    The Apology 2006

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