traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
traduces
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present tense formof traduce (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
As for his personal reflections, I would gladly know who are those 'wanton wives' he speaks of? who are those ladies of high stations that he so boldly traduces in his sermon?
From History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot
He spoils the Elibank Plot, he reveals the hostile policy of Frederick the Great, he leads on to the arrest of Archibald Cameron, he sows disunion, he traduces and betrays.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
And next to him again is the beautiful, the accomplished, the witty, the fascinating, the tormenting, Lady Clarinda, who traduces herself to the said Captain by assertions which it would drive him crazy to believe.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
