Crossword-Solution: SLANDERER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slanderer | n. | One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SLANDERER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lady Sneerwell's role in "The School for Scandal.” | 1 answer |
| Maligner. | 1 answer |
| Owner of a bad tongue. | 1 answer |
| one who defames another | 1 answer |
| poison pen | 3 answers |
| Malicious one | 6 answers |
| Backbiter | 8 answers |
| ACCUSER | 26 answers |
| TROUBLESOME person | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEAMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SLANDERER (5)
While the colored people are thus elbowed out of employment; while the enmity of emigrants is being excited against us; while state after state enacts laws against us; while we are hunted down, like wild game, and oppressed with a general feeling of insecurity—the American colonization society—that old offender against the best interests and slanderer of the colored people—awakens to new life, and vigorously presses its scheme upon the consideration of the people and the government.
During the regular Thursday-night prayer-meeting, held about two weeks after my arrival, and at which, of course, I presided, they voiced their difficulties in public prayer, loudly and urgently calling upon the Lord to pardon such and such a liar, mentioning the gentleman by name, and such and such a slanderer, whose name was also submitted.
Why are you so ready now to take a slanderer's word against his? You were keen enough to accept his story, when it let you out of going to Dick's rescue, and gave you free swing to court his girl.
Geoffrey Delamayn, whose fair fame had been assailed (it was needless, the correspondent added in parenthesis, to say how groundlessly), was understood to have expressed, not only the indignation natural under the circumstances but also his extreme regret at not finding himself in a position to aid Captain Newenden’s efforts to bring the anonymous slanderer to justice.
The most malignant slanderer on seeing this scene would at once have understood that the hints thrown out by the Oliviers were false.
Quotes with SLANDERER (3)
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace. But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly p…
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–1974).