He was as active in slandering his neighbors as they were in slandering him; though, as Miss Van Vechten observes, "It is hard to see what fiction worse than truth could have been invented about him.
It is difficult to justify Liszt's desertion of the woman, except by slandering her memory, and it is difficult to save her memory without slandering his.
He made his first mistake byslandering Schumann, not knowing the A B C of a woman's heart.
I assure you, neighbor, that someone has beenslandering me to you.
A self-confessed thief trying to justify himself by slandering those he had robbed, and angry with them because they were not grateful to him for not having taken all their property--and her brother applauding!
Shall I degrade myself by noticing these lying, slandering scoundrels?
Besides, we know that Essex, and after him Cecil and Henry Howard, had been slandering Raleigh basely to James.
Others slandering him, that he came only by chance, at a throw of the dice; with many other calumnies, refuted by the foregoing relation.
This is slandering the crow, for there is not a crow or vulture that will use a drop of this slop.
I will now speak of my persecution for so-called slandering the prosecuting attorney.
He breathlessly begins to bewail the base, lying conduct of the merchants who have been slandering him, and swears he is innocent of oppressing anybody.
The governor pours forth the most abject apologies; declares that if the people accuse him of oppression and extortion, and even of flogging women, they are a slandering mob.
About the same time the publication of "Cain," then going on, raised a perfect storm, furnishing his enemies with pretexts for attacking andslandering him more than ever.
If you know it not to be true, or have not sufficient evidence to prove it, you are guilty of lying and slandering interpretatively, though it should prove true; because it might have been a lie for aught you knew.
It encourageth ungodly men to the odious sin of backbiting and slandering the most religious, righteous person.
People round him may be mistaking him, slandering him, plotting against him, rebelling against him, even while he is trying to do them all the good he can.
Continually are they slandering me to the king my lord.
And yet continually are they slandering me before the king my lord, because I say that the provinces of the king my lord are being destroyed.
Similarly, there is a great difference between slanderingour neighbour and recounting his evil deeds.
Thirdly, slandering finds encouragement in the very small amount of restitution and reparation made for this fault.
When I was going over in the dusk to take the deceased miller's measure for his final sleeping room, I heard a couple of your good friends slandering you.
That you played double, never Thought I this could be, Now I am absent from you All areslandering me.
God, wilt Thou give me patience Here while suffer I ye, Now I am absent from you All are slandering me.
III Poplars of the meadow, Fountains of Madrid, Now I am absent from you All areslandering me.
Not even one who had no interest inslandering you?
Roma, looking round with flushed cheeks and flaming eyes at the jangling, slandering crew, who had insulted and degraded David Rossi.
This king was unskilled [364] in slandering his neighbour, but skilled in the meaning of the Sastras, he shewed poverty in crime, not in treasure and military force.
Monsieur," he spoke, "if you are a gentleman you shall answer to me for slandering Monsieur de la Salle.
A historian, for instance, would not be justified in slandering his heroes under the pretext that, not believing in the immortality of the soul, he knew he could do them no harm.
The matter must be judged before the lady; and she was quite young, and far more like to hang me forslandering her cousin, and a gentleman, and a handsome man, than to make him give me back my own.
Slandering a prince deserves it," says the Duke, at the beginning of the final speech.
Isabella is, for the time being, sent to prison for slandering a man of unblemished honour.
The battalion commander feels that he cannot state, too strongly, his intense contempt for any coward who will resort to slandering a comrade in an anonymous letter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slandering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
