The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.