Word of the Day: TRADUCE

traduce (verb) - to speak maliciously and falsely of; to defame or slander

BREAKDOWN: TRANS- (across) + DUC- (lead) [lead to thinking ill of]

RELATED WORDS: traducement is the act of traducing

“Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced (by American newspapers).” —Thurgood Marshall