traduce
verb (used with object)
to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame.
traducing
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present participleof traduce.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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They spend the book traducing the relationship’s effect on U.S. foreign policy, electoral politics and the news media, among other areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
It’s an approach now so mainstream that it’s become an orthodoxy of its own; it’s difficult to think of a writer today, of any genre, who doesn’t congratulate herself for traducing artificial binaries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
Yale has been seduced by a $150 million “bells and whistles” student center into traducing the best of what it and Holloway have stood for.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2019
Are you comfortable with this traducing of due process?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2015
As to those things published in journals against thee: Thou shouldst not be grieved nor sorry therefor, because thousands of journals have written traducing Abdul-Baha, have given false and base accusations and awful calumnies.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
