traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
has traduced
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present perfectof traduce (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This thief has traduced my lady, who was all unprepared for any evil, and to whom it never occurred that he would steal her heart away.
From Four Arthurian Romances by William Wistar Comfort
Some body has traduced me to you: do you see this sword Sir?
From A King, and No King by John Fletcher
The capital charge, in the opinion of many, the head and front of his offending, is that he has traduced a whole society, and has spread libels broadcast.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
He thus selects for compliment on one page the very women whom he has traduced on another.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Has he no secret sympathy for the poor blocks whom he has traduced?
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various
