| Slanderous 1. (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. 2. (a.) Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. Thesaurus Entries abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, decrying, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, discrediting, disparaging, libelous, maligning, minimizing, muckraking, pejorative, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slighting, smear, vilifying |