单词 | traduce |
释义 | traduce (once / 8887 pages) v To traduce is to badmouth someone or something. If you don't want people talking trash about you, then don't traduce them either — even if they started it. Among cabaret performers, there is long tradition of traducing other performers — though at its heart, it's really a way of showing affection. Showing love by being mean: such is the strange world of camp. Of course, in order to know that a person is being funny when they traduce another person, you usually have to know them both pretty well. So if you're not either very familiar or very funny, avoid traducing other people for laughs: they're likely to think that you meant all those nasty things. WORD FAMILYtraduce: traduced, traducement, traducer, traduces, traducing+/traducement: traducements/traducer: traducers USAGE EXAMPLESWithout wishing to traduce Mike Phelan’s tactical reputation, one suspects that Hull’s switch to a 3-5-2 system belongs in the latter camp. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) The left has waged asymmetric political warfare, routinely traducing the same norms is was demanding its opponents respect. Wall Street Journal(Nov 21, 2016) This remoteness, as much as their frequent conflation with swamps, has served to traduce bogs in the popular imagination. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) v speak unfavorably about Syn|Hyper badmouth, drag through the mud, malign asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone |
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