traducement

• And if you're thinking, as I must admit I was, that Mr Blair's hair is markedly greying, well perhaps premature ageing is one of the consequences of running a great country amidst continuous personal barracking and traducement. —  British Blogs
• Examples abound, but the case du jour is Thom Hartmann's traducement of laissez-faire's "intellectual roots" in the Huffington Post: —  Mises Dailies
• There's nothing new about such traducement; along with allurement, inducement, fraud and coercion, it has been one of the mainstays of evangelism. —  Shadow Warrior
• But how unjust this traducement is (if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; so as this weakest terms and times of all things use to have the best applications and helps. —  The Advancement of Learning
• That is the response of dignity and sovereignty that this cowardly act of traducement calls for. —  Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories

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