Slander vs Ridicule - What's the difference?
slander | ridicule |
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.
to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
* Alexander Pope
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
* Buckle
* Foxe
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
* Addison
(obsolete) ridiculous
As nouns the difference between slander and ridicule
is that 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 while ridicule is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.As verbs the difference between slander and ridicule
is that slander is to utter a slanderous statement while ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.As an adjective ridicule is
(obsolete) ridiculous.slander
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(wikipedia slander)Alternative forms
* slandre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoSynonyms
* defame * libel (always in writing) * See alsoSee also
* defamationAnagrams
*ridicule
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Verb
(ridicul)- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
Synonyms
* (l)Noun
- Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
- To the people but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule .
- to see the ridicule of this practice
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* See alsoSee also
* humiliationAdjective
(en adjective)- This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.