Word of the Day: TRADUCE
To denigrate or disgrace
traduce (verb) - to speak maliciously and falsely of; to defame or slander [truh-doos]
BREAKDOWN: TRA- (across) + DUC- (lead) [lead to thinking ill of]
traducement is the act of slander or defamation
“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
