traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
traduced
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past participleof traduce.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof traduce.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
traduceverb (used with object)to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
Example Sentences
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Instead, my reputation was traduced, my story distorted, my credibility made hostage to smears.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2018
More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
On Monday Mr Watson was urged to apologise by Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who said he had "vilely traduced" the former home secretary.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2015
This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015
I have not shrunk from toil, danger, nor hardships, and though alone-handed and unsustained, black-balled and traduced, astonishing to say, my measures have yet succeeded.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by William Henry Gray
