Term: slander: words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: swarm: a group of many things in the air or on the ground
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: hypostasis: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: nuclear resonance: the resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: misalliance: an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: discipline: the act of punishing
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: flowering fern: Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: easter daisy: dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: superior colliculus: an essential visual center between the retina and the striate cortex
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: argus: (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes
Broader: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Unrelated: flux: the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface