Lying vs Slander - What's the difference?
lying | slander |
* 1811 , ,
An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
* Jeremy Taylor
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
* Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
As verbs the difference between lying and slander
is that lying is present participle of lang=en while slander is to utter a slanderous statement.As nouns the difference between lying and slander
is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while slander is a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.lying
English
(wikipedia lying)Verb
(head)Sense and SensibilityThe Free Library , Chapter 19:
- Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..
Noun
(en noun)- But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?
