slander

The article is a slander on ordinary working people.

She slandered him behind his back.

they were accused of slandering the head of state.

slandered his political opponent;

He slandered me in front of my friend.

The breath of slander nevertouched him.

slander that tarnished the senator's image.

slander of an official carried an eight-year prison sentence.

back-stabbing slander and electronic harassment are freely employed in down-and-dirty hacker feuds.

aspersion, calumny, defame, denigrate, discredit, libel, malign, slander, slur, stigmatise, traduce, vilify.

Has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,

At the end of one of her last letters to Richardson she did not even put her name, saying it was ‘lost, barebit and gnawn, by Slander’s canker tooth’.