maligner
Spreader of lies
A maligner is someone who speaks ill of others, damaging their reputation through false or misleading statements.
The word carries a sense of deliberate harm—not casual criticism but purposeful defamation: His maligner spread rumors throughout the office.
The related verb is malign.
One who defames
- libelerOne who publishes defamation
- defamerOne who slanders others
- vilifierOne who disparages
- calumniatorOne who spreads falsehoods
traducer · denigrator · disparager · detractor · backbiter · smearer · mudslinger · scandalmonger
One who opposes another
- enemyHostile opposing party
- ill-wisherOne desiring another's misfortune
- haterOne who loathes
- attackerOne who strikes first
persecutor · tormentor · bully · aggressor · adversary · foe · nemesis · bitter rival
slanderer
One who defames
calumniator · traducer · denigrator · disparager · detractor · backbiter · smearer · mudslinger · scandalmonger · rumormonger
antagonist
One who opposes another
- enemyHostile opposing party
- ill-wisherOne desiring another's misfortune
- haterOne who loathes
attacker · persecutor · tormentor · bully · aggressor · adversary · foe · nemesis · bitter rival
- defamersdefamer, slanderer, libeler, calumniator, vilifier
- criticscritic, critics, criticizer, criticizers, faultfinder
- malignant tumorCancerous bodily growth
- malignant cellsHarmful, uncontrolled tissue growth
- malignant narcissismPathological self-love with cruelty
- malignant growthHarmful, spreading tumor
malign, malignant, malignity, maligned, maligning, malignancy, maligns, malignantly, malignance