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And if I seem insouciant, it’s not because I’m not taking it seriously, or I feel some residual coating of shame at re-entering an institution I’ve already traduced once.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2018

And there’s another value that’s being traduced here, one that Old Schoolers often uphold: hard work.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 28, 2017

It is the sort of double-cross and double blow that no clean athlete deserves, traduced by the cheats, smeared by the actions of those who have already duped them once.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 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

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady