1
as in to violate
to fail to keep
a law that traduces one of our most cherished rights: the right to privacy
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2
as in to libel
to make untrue and harmful statements about
my opponent in this campaign may villainously traduce me, but I will not stoop to his level
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Recent Examples of traduce
Her infatuation traduces the complexities of interracial, interspecies, and cross-cultural attraction.
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Armond White,
National Review,
26 May 2023
And the academic establishment traduced it, mocked it, minimized it.
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Ariana Marsh,
Harper's BAZAAR,
6 Mar. 2023
Its founding principles and its 1968 charter are of a bygone era, and they have been violated and traduced by the Palestinians’ own official practice.
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Hussein Agha,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2021
In Philip’s case, the myth was the good Jewish boy traduced by inner anarchy.
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Benjamin Taylor,
The Atlantic,
21 Apr. 2020
Authors and illustrators are being flamed online and having their reputations traduced and their careers threatened for transgressing the capricious new standards of ideological purity.
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Meghan Cox Gurdon,
WSJ,
31 Jan. 2020
Armond White,
National Review,
26 May 2023
And the academic establishment traduced it, mocked it, minimized it.
—
Ariana Marsh,
Harper's BAZAAR,
6 Mar. 2023
Its founding principles and its 1968 charter are of a bygone era, and they have been violated and traduced by the Palestinians’ own official practice.
—
Hussein Agha,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2021
In Philip’s case, the myth was the good Jewish boy traduced by inner anarchy.
—
Benjamin Taylor,
The Atlantic,
21 Apr. 2020
Authors and illustrators are being flamed online and having their reputations traduced and their careers threatened for transgressing the capricious new standards of ideological purity.
—
Meghan Cox Gurdon,
WSJ,
31 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traduce
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Judge Sullivan concluded in his June 25 decision to order Blanche to release more information or explain himself that Blanche had likely violated the transparency law.
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Guests were reportedly required to sign nondisclosure agreements before receiving any event details (although the NDAs were said not to have included any penalties for violating the terms).
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The restaurant sources its birotes from Duran’s to make the open-face, bean and cheese-smeared breakfast sandwiches popular throughout Mexico.
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That slows down the process of multiple shockwaves merging into larger ones and allows the atmosphere to weaken the smaller shockwaves to smear out the sharp pressure change into a more gradual increase.
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Historic heat Since Thursday, heat in the East has broken at least three dozen daily high temperature records, many warmest-low-temperature records as heat reached levels that some cities haven’t experienced in more than a decade.
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The lead secured, Switzerland shifted to a five-man midfield out of possession, snuffing out the space and challenging the Algerians to play through it, but Petkovic’s charges struggled to break their opponents down.
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“Traduce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traduce. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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