Word: slanderer
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Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...
Sinyavsky and Daniel attempted to convince their judges that such creative effort was not intended as anti-Soviet propaganda. But Soviet officials were incapable of distinguishing the language of fiction from that of subversive slander. They condemned the stories as hostile agitation without taking into account the creative use of allegory and allusion...
Judge Smirnov: Slander is the circulation of deliberately false, defamatory inventions. This means that what you write is slanderous...
...they do investigate us, it will not be pleasant," he said, not because we have anything to hide but because they have a history of slander and distortion...
...Slander my name all over the place...