It is a vicious slander against the South to claim the Confederate battle flag represents admiration for slavery.

It is out of ulterior motives for a handful of people to spread lies and make vicious slanders on this issue," he said.

Then deafening silence, as everybody studiously ignores the vicious slanders they uttered during the moment of maximum hysteria.

He called the NRA letter a "vicious slander on good people".

"How typical to turn a little harmless jesting into vicious slander."

I have witnessed and experienced vicious slander, raw prejudice, reliance on stereotypes, forced invisibility and just about every other form of defamation.

That is a vicious slander, totally untrue.

On the other hand of course, this could all be a vicious slander.

It was just a vicious slander, based on nothing more substantial than your obsessive dislike of me!

That was a mean and vicious slander.