Related Clues:

• Liable to drop article misconstrued as smear
• Unfairly denigrate south German regions
• Learns possibly about five hundred derogatory words
• Man's man? Not one for malicious words
• Bad-mouth topless Tahitian, for example
• Write ill of
• Smearing in ink?
• Printing error?
• False and malicious publication to defame
• -- : spoken :: libel : written
• Spoken defamation
• Slanderous statements in print
• Spoken slur
• Libel's spoken equivalent
• Rum type, possibly - one dismissed for backbiting