ˈslanderousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Inclination to slander.
| 1577 Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706) 119 Teaching slanderousness, war, wrong, and abundance of all mischief. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Slanderousness, reproachfulness. 1810 Bentham Packing (1821) 101 Impropriety... Slanderousness... Ill-nature. 1882 Farrar Early Chr. II. 247 Breathing the atmosphere of faction, slanderousness and hate. |