Word: slanderous
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...game for PSG as racist banners and fascist symbols hung from rails; a special anti-racism themed match in 2004 inspired ultras and thousands of easily led fans to "monkey grunt" whenever a black player got the ball. Indeed, some PSG ultras have mockingly denied anti-Semitism motivated their slander of Hapoel fans and their attack on Hazout, explaining it was the same unbridled belligerence they direct at all "enemies...
...humanities concentrators—or “philistines” as I like to slander them—have a galling habit of demanding students of literature to justify their scholarly metier. My blockmate nicely encapsulated the problem: “Why study Shakespeare?” In response, some of us choose to storm off in a pique of rage; others offer lofty bromides, fully aware of their inanity. All of us, however, are confounded, and perhaps vaguely offended. How dare this bourgeois challenge me to justify the humanities by vulgar utilitarian criteria? We pursue beauty...
...spent a decade teaching law at the University of Chicago. Two years ago, the charismatic Illinois Democrat stood before an audience of millions and proclaimed, “Children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations, and turn off the television sets, and eradicate the slander that a black youth with a book is acting white.” Such a message, one would think, should be music to Williams’ ears...
TIME: Critics have noted that while you were free to slam President Bush on U.S. soil, a new defamation law in Venezuela makes people subject to criminal prosecution for slander against officials like...
...movie's early power is the unease it has sparked among the presumed objects of its ridicule. The real Kazakhstan, perhaps taking a hint from Kurdistan's recent ad campaign promoting itself as "the other Iraq," is busily devising a publicity effort to counter Borat's supposed national slander...