The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SMEARS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2022.
Slanders crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMEARS | 32 % | 6 |
| MALIGNS | 20 % | 7 |
| ASPERSES | 12 % | 8 |
| CASTSASPERSIONS | 4 % | 15 |
| CALUMNIES | 4 % | 9 |
| TRADUCES | 4 % | 8 |
| BESMEARS | 4 % | 8 |
| BACKBITES | 4 % | 9 |
| SLURS | 4 % | 5 |
| TARS | 4 % | 4 |
| TRASHES | 4 % | 7 |
| DEFAMES | 4 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slanders
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- aspersion
- calumny
- calumniate
- defamation
- denigrate
- defame
- sully
- besmirch
- smirch
- smear
- asperse
- backbites
Crossword Answer definitions
SMEARS verb- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.
- To become spread by smearing.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SMEARS
- Microscope-slide samples
- Lopsided victories
- Faulty applications?
- Bad-mouths
- Campaign materials?
- Slanders
- Campaign mud
- Defamations
- Vilifies
- Defames
More clues leading to the result MALIGNS
- Bad-mouths
- Disparages
- Slanders
- Casts in a bad light
- Defames.
- Slanders.
- Drags through the mud
- Vilifies
- Bad--mouths
- Slings mud at
More clues leading to the result ASPERSES
More clues leading to the result CASTSASPERSIONS
More clues leading to the result CALUMNIES
More clues leading to the result TRADUCES
More clues leading to the result BESMEARS
More clues leading to the result BACKBITES
More clues leading to the result SLURS
- Casts aspersions on
- Speaks indistinctly
- Maligns
- Aspersions
- Fails to enunciate
- Puts down
- Pronounces indistinctly
- Defames
- Utters indistinctly
- Discredits
More clues leading to the result TARS
- Old salts
- Gives a tongue-lashing to
- Punishes publically
- Sailors
- Sea dogs
- Swabs
- Surfaces, as a road
- Salts
- Hold hands?
- Crew members
More clues leading to the result TRASHES
- Destroys, as a hotel room
- Does a number on, as a hotel room
- Redecorates, as a Marriott, perhaps
- Condemns as worthless
- Damages deliberately
- Destroys
- Reduces to junk
- Speaks disparagingly of
- Wrecks
- Makes a mess of