'Slanderous' in the Bible
As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation murmur and complain against him by bringing back a bad report concerning the land,
He had been hired to make me afraid so I would sin by doing what he suggested. Then they could create a slanderous report to use against me.
You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.
The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.
They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,
“Do not let a slanderer be established in the earth;Let evil quickly hunt the violent man [to overthrow him and stop his evil acts].”
Slanderous men live among you, intent on shedding blood. They've eaten at the top of mountain shrines. They've crafted plans to do evil things among you.
And they were saying many other [evil and slanderous] things against Him, blaspheming [speaking sacrilegiously and abusively about] Him.
Then [to attack him another way] they secretly instructed men to say, “We have heard this man [Stephen] speak blasphemous (slanderous, sacrilegious, abusive) words against Moses and against God.”
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.
unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.