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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The first minister said that he and "so many people of colour have been traduced and vilified merely for raising concerns about how some of these debates have been handled".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024
Or because Hoan Ton-That, the ingenious co-founder of Clearview, had once, like Thiel, been traduced by Gawker?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2020
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
Elizabet von Stohl would have fallen down dead if she could have heard herself so traduced!
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
