Slander and Gossip

Interesting to me that often we look at sin in a level. We see some sin as being worse than others. Gossip and slander are often overlooked.

Whispers (psithuristes; a secret calumniator). The word means “secret slander” or “to speak in one's ear.” In Ecclesiastes, Solomon says, “The serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better (10:11)”. God Almighty has stamped gossip with the nature of a snakebite. Chrysostom said, “slander is worse than cannibalism."
Jeremy Taylor, in one of his sermons said, "Slander rends in pieces the very heart and vital parts of charity: it makes an evil man part and witness, and judge, and executioner of the innocent.”