traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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"O Olympia! where do you get such repulsive ideas of us; who has been traducing us to you?"
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan