"slanderously" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From slanderous + -ly.",
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      "form": "more slanderously",
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      "form": "most slanderously",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2013:",
          "text": "The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”",
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          "ref": "2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024:",
          "text": "Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the \"hipster effect\" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.",
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        "In a slanderous manner; in a manner that causes slander; in a false and defamatory way."
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  "word": "slanderously"
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  "etymology_text": "From slanderous + -ly.",
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          "text": "The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”",
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          "ref": "2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024:",
          "text": "Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the \"hipster effect\" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.",
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