Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of traducing; misrepresentation; defamation; calumny; obloquy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
Examples
“No traducement was forwarded, to the contrary, those are biographical facts which you prefer to obfuscate and deflect rather than confront more honestly.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“They have chosen the "realist" assignation, one might suppose, because "the illusionist school" or "the traducement school" of foreign policy wouldn't sell very well to the polities they seek to target.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Thus have I gone over these three diseases of learning; besides the which there are some other rather peccant humours than formed diseases, which, nevertheless, are not so secret and intrinsic, but that they fall under a popular observation and traducement, and, therefore, are not to be passed over.”
“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.”
“Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, 28”
“Examples abound, but the case du jour is Thom Hartmann's traducement of laissez-faire's "intellectual roots" in the Huffington Post:”
“That is the response of dignity and sovereignty that this cowardly act of traducement calls for.”
“There's nothing new about such traducement; along with allurement, inducement, fraud and coercion, it has been one of the mainstays of evangelism.”
“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.”
“Your misappropriation and casual traducement in passing of a well known individual's public name much to the anguish of that person told us all we need to know about what a low-minded attention seeking twat you are.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘traducement’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Censure (n.)
aspersion, calumny, contumely, diatribe, obloquy, opprobrium, philippic, tirade, vilipendency, tantalization, admonition, beration and 23 more...
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Politrix
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
vexillology, blowback, impunity, extraterritoriality, plenipotentiary, filibuster, pundit, jingoistic, gerrymander, swiftboat, espionage, ipsedixitism and 151 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Neology
neology, du jour, monanthous, corf, schuss, cladophyll, laniferous, astatic, dahabeah, vibrissa, resupinate, almandine and 77 more...
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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Speak when you are angry . . .
and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierceinvective, vitriol, vituperation, contumely, revile, vilify, scurrility, billingsgate, traducement, derogation, depreciation, disparagement and 1 more...
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Words I've learned from reading
Some words I've had to stop and look up while reading. Not exhaustive, of course, because I'm old.
virago, graminivorous, traducement, satrapy, Amphitryon, refulgent
Tweets
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bilby "COMINIUS: You shall not be
The grave of your deserving; Rome must know
The value of her own: 'twere a concealment
Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
To hide your doings; and to silence that
Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,
Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you,--
In sign of what you are, not to reward
What you have done,--before our army hear me."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009