'Slander' in the Bible

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.