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Slander vs Mispraise - What's the difference?

slander | mispraise |

As verbs the difference between slander and mispraise

is that slander is to utter a slanderous statement while mispraise is to praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.

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.

slander

English

(wikipedia slander)

Alternative forms

* slandre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter a slanderous statement.

    • Synonyms

    * defame * libel (always in writing) * See also

    See also

    * defamation

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    mispraise

    English

    Verb

    (misprais)
  • (rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1623 , , The sermons of John Donne , Sermon 12 (Google preview):
    • [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised , are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
  • * 1845 , Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview):
    • We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
  • * 2010 , Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting ), Offerings to the Discerning Eye , Sue D'Auria (ed.), ISBN 9789004178748, p. 247 n.25 (Google preview):
    • Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised .
  • (archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1949 , , Matthew Arnold , ISBN 9780049280182, p. 106 (Google preview):
    • On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.

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