'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].”