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TRADUCEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does traducement mean?
• TRADUCEMENT (noun)
The noun TRADUCEMENT has 1 sense:
1. a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
Familiarity information: TRADUCEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement
Hypernyms ("traducement" is a kind of...):
depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traducement"):
assassination; blackwash; character assassination (an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation)
malignment; smear; vilification (slanderous defamation)
libel (a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person)
slander (words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another)
name calling; names (verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument)
epithet; name (a defamatory or abusive word or phrase)
Derivation:
traduce (speak unfavorably about)
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