slanderous words

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• Slanderous — Slan der*ous, a. 1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. Slanderous tongue. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. [1913 Webster] {Slan der*ous*ly}, adv. {Slan… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• slanderous per se — Slanderous in itself; such words as are deemed slanderous without proof of special damages. Words which intrinsically, without innuendo, import injury, and are words from which damage, by consent of men generally, flows as a natural consequence.… …   Black's law dictionary

• words — Symbols indicating ideas and subject to contraction and expansion to meet the idea sought to be expressed. Such have been referred to as labels whose content and meaning are continually shifting with the times. Massachusetts Protective Ass n v.… …   Black's law dictionary

• slanderous — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, decrying, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• slanderous per quod — Spoken words possibly of a noxious quality in respect of causing injury to another by prejudicing him in reputation, office, or means of livelihood, but actionable only as their injurious effect is established by due allegation and proof. Elkins… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• slanderous per se — Spoken words of such nature as to be presumed by law actually and necessarily to damage the person of and concerning whom they are spoken, so as to be actionable without extrinsic proof of their injurious character. Elkins v Roberts (Ky) 242 SW2d …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• words actionable per quod — See libelous per quod; slanderous per quod …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• words actionable per se — See libelous per se; slanderous per se …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Slanderously — Slanderous Slan der*ous, a. 1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. Slanderous tongue. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. [1913 Webster] {Slan der*ous*ly},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Slanderousness — Slanderous Slan der*ous, a. 1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. Slanderous tongue. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. [1913 Webster] {Slan der*ous*ly},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• slander of title — Words, written, printed, or uttered, which bring or tend to bring in question the right or title of another to real or personal property. 33 Am J1st L & S § 344. A false and malicious statement, oral or written, made in disparagement of a person… …   Ballentine's law dictionary