Traducing

Nonetheless, he took the thrust of my points and apologised for 'traducing' me. ❋ DC (2006)

I overheard that some American has had the nerve to make a film called Expelled traducing natural selection and championing something called ‘intelligent design’. ❋ Maxine (2009)

He also says we can drink the water untreated, but it seems he is traducing the canyon, and none of us take his word on that. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Yet it felt as though she was traducing her work at school for creative ends. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But after this, the band set about enthusiastically traducing its own legacy with awful punk covers, a revolving door of session hacks and long periods of torpor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the contrary, for the purposes of animating the stage she hasn't done enough traducing: this often sounds like cut-out book pages walking around the stage. ❋ Susannah Clapp (2010)

Page after foul page, traducing me in the most odious terms ❋ Unknown (2010)

My ex-SOAS friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Bradnock, a world authority on the Sub-Continent, has been seething for years over the traducing of data and information relating to this key part of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He and other Nevada politicians, wrote Twain, All owe me something for traducing and vilifying them in the public prints, and thus exciting sympathy for them on the score of persecution, and securing their nomination. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

Clearly, from the comments here as well as in the Knopf archives, some editors (and slush readers) simply resent their tasks, and resent the fictional (or other literary) fields they are busy traducing. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

I don't know who this "Michael Young" was, but to avoid traducing the reputation of an admirable man you should perhaps clarify that he *wasn't* the well-known Michael Young who founded the Open University and the National Consumer Council,wrote the Labour Party's 1945 manifesto, was latterly a labour peer, and in his late 70s promoted the idea of secular naming ceremonies in place of baptisms. ❋ TK (2009)

If he now goes back on that promise, that would be as dishonourable a traducing of his promise as that of Mr. Brown, perhaps the more so given the swiftness with which he has resiled from it. ❋ Unknown (2007)