6 Was I misjudging her? So many slanders are written every day in the daily press against the Puerto Ricans. I hesitated for a long, long minute. The manners that the Puerto Rican passes on from father to son were struggling inside me. Here was I, way past midnight, face to face with a situation that could very well explode into an outburst of prejudices. In paragraph 6, what does the word slanders mean?

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6 Was I misjudging her? So many slanders are written every day in the daily press against the Puerto Ricans. I hesitated for a long, long minute. The manners that the Puerto Rican passes on from father to son were struggling inside me. Here was I, way past midnight, face to face with a situation that could very well explode into an outburst of prejudices.   In paragraph 6, what does the word slanders mean?
To walk slowly with a limp due to an injury.

Stories or rumors spread to gossip about others.

Positive remarks or praise about someone’s achievements.

False and defamatory statements about a person.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

In paragraph 6, the word "slanders" means **false and defamatory statements about a person**.