different between slander vs mispraise
slander
English
Alternative forms
- slandre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sl??nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?slænd?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /sl??nd?/
Noun
slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:slander
Antonyms
- glorification (falsely praising statement)
Translations
Verb
slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)
- To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.
Synonyms
- defame
- libel (always in writing)
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Antonyms
- glorify (baselessly speak well of)
Translations
See also
- defamation
Anagrams
- Landers, Lenards, Nadlers, Randles, Sandler, darnels, enlards, landers, relands, slandre, snarled
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mispraise
English
Etymology
From mis- +? praise. Compare to French mépriser
Verb
mispraise (third-person singular simple present mispraises, present participle mispraising, simple past and past participle mispraised)
- (transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.
- 1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview):
- [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
- 1845, Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview):
- We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
- 2010, Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting Jonathan Barnes), Offerings to the Discerning Eye, Sue D'Auria (ed.), ?ISBN, p. 247 n.25 (Google preview):
- Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised.
- 1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview):
- (transitive, archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.
- 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, ?ISBN, p. 106 (Google preview):
- On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.
- 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, ?ISBN, p. 106 (Google preview):
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