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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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opprobrium
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium (“reproach, disgrace”), first attested [1656], from opprobr? (“reproach, taunt”), from ob (“against”) + probrum (“disgrace, dishonor”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??p?o?b?i.?m/
Noun
opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)
- Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
- Synonym: obloquy
- Scornful reproach or contempt.
- Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel; see also Thesaurus:contempt
- A cause of shame or disgrace.
- Synonym: curse
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:opprobrium.
Related terms
- opprobrious
Translations
Latin
Alternative forms
- obprobrium
Etymology
From opprobr? +? -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p??b?i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p???b?ium]
Noun
opprobrium n (genitive opprobri? or opprobr?); second declension
- reproach, taunt
- scandal, disgrace, dishonour, shame
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- opprobri?sus
Descendants
- Catalan: oprobi
- ? English: opprobrium
- French: opprobre
- Portuguese: opróbrio
- Spanish: oprobio, oprobrio
References
- opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opprobrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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