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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
slanderer
    n 1: one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or
         libel [syn: defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier,
         libeler, backbiter, traducer]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slanderer \Slan"der*er\, n.
   One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. --Jer. Taylor.
   [1913 Webster]
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SLANDERER. A calumniator, who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime 
or fault to another, of which he is innocent. 
     2. For this offence, when the slander is merely verbal, the remedy is 
an action on the case for damages; when it is reduced to writing or 
printing, it is a libel. (q.v.)
Thesaurus Results for Slanderer:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, caustic critic, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, muckraker, mudslinger, railer, social critic, traducer
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