traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
have traduced
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present perfectof traduce.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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The sages of the North have traduced him as a malignant.
From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Thomas Lathbury
We have traduced the State, and for us there is no return.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Those have traduced you who call you unimpressionable.
From The Burning Spear by John Galsworthy
The lady you have traduced has herself been seriously ill, and that is why she is not at Brinkwort's Farm.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
But you have traduced it; told a vile story to the public ear, that I have wronged my sister.
From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake
