to slander / to defame / to speak ill of

= + : Beelzebub (b) set up an advertising column (讠) advertising his bourbon (旁) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), but after the people drink his bourbon they only speak ill of (谤) Beelzebub and his bourbon.

谤 character breakdown

one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: bourbon, 波旁.

The beast (六) just entered the anglepod (ang2) and got a quest from Pinocchio (p). Pinocchio asked the beast to fit a cooking top (冖) into a square (方). If he succeeds, he'll get a bottle of bourbon (旁), so the beast is jumping on the cooking top madly trying to push it through the square.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 谤 as component

谤 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 谤

to slander / to libel
slander / libel / to malign / to disparage

Sentences with 谤

谤 currently does not appear in any sentence.