Slander vs Censorious - What's the difference?
slander | censorious |
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.
Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
* 2013 , Holly Baxter, Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/masturbating-public-laughing-matter-sweden]
Implying or expressing censure.
* censorious remarks
As a noun 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.As a verb slander
is to utter a slanderous statement.As an adjective censorious is
addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.slander
English
(wikipedia slander)Alternative forms
* slandre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoSynonyms
* defame * libel (always in writing) * See alsoSee also
* defamationAnagrams
*censorious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was "not of a sexual nature" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.