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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And yet a friend of Sir Olly Robbins, the defenestrated lead civil servant in the Foreign Office, said the soon to be former mandarin was being unfairly traduced.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Instead, my reputation was traduced, my story distorted, my credibility made hostage to smears.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 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
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 also was traduced both at home and abroad by one Alexander Gordon, who sometimes joined with that suffering party.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
