(n.) The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look further and you see people in faked approximations of designer logos – that they've been traduced doesn't detract from their meaning; it gives them a new story.
(2) The most powerful in the land had helped to perpetuate a media culture that allowed decent people to be traduced (there's a word your rarely hear in real life) "out of casual malice, for money, for spite, for sport.
(3) Yet, from his reaction, which was in the familiar non-apology apology of “I am sorry if I have caused offence, I should never have said such a thing in front of journalists”, it appears that he thinks it is he who has been in some way traduced, confounded by that dratted tendency of women not to get the joke.
(4) Frequently, this involves traducing the messenger as much as examining the message.
(5) It is depressing to hear union leaders deliberately misrepresent the government's reforms and traduce Michael Gove, whose respect for teaching and passion for improving the lot of the most disadvantaged children should be an inspiration to everyone involved in education.
(6) The results are traduced by different colours or by coloured ligns.
(7) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
(8) I really value the mateship that Peter O'Neill has shown to Australia on this.” The following day he said: “The co-operation that we are getting from PNG is a real act of mateship on their part and I’m really thrilled by it.” It’s a sort of Orwellian parallel reality: people held in dreadful conditions, two government conspiring to traduce their rights and suppress as much information as they can, and no one having the slightest clue about the future of people who really did flee persecution – while Abbott declares it’s been “a very successful visit”.
(9) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(10) And the essence of this is that there must be a cheap, easy, independent and reliable arbitration process to force speedy prominent corrections on newspapers, and deliver ample compensation in a timely fashion to those who have been traduced.
(11) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(12) Struan Stevenson , a Tory MEP for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and a former chair of the European parliament’s fisheries committee, said Michael Gove was guilty of “traducing” the EU and of “trotting out an emotional story as propaganda” to back the leave campaign.
(13) Not content with simply banning the film in its own country, the Iranian government complained to Unesco that it traduced Iran’s national dignity.
(14) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(15) Visibly agitated by the idea that the current system of self-regulation can continue, he adds: "Many people say celebrities live by publicity and if they get the wrong sort they can't be entirely surprised, but what one is concerned by is when innocent people are traduced by the media.
(16) But instead he was suspended and the home secretary has spent two days basically traducing him and damning him."
(17) The Sun 's coverage has been hostile ever since, offering unqualified support for British troops while traducing their political masters.
(18) Like George Orwell, he had a deep love of England and the English, believing that our green and pleasant land was being traduced by a petty-minded army of bureaucrats.
(19) And it is about whether this house will be supine when its members phones are hacked, or about whether it will take action when the democratic right of MPs to do their job without illegal let, hindrance or interception has been traduced.
(20) There was nothing improper about meeting a demand by an employer to secure their leave.” Tim Dutton QC, for the SRA, said British troops involved in the Battle of Danny Boy had “their reputations traduced” at a press conference given by Day in 2008 at which the allegations were first made in public.
Vilification
Definition:
(n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its campaign of vilification and deliberate misrepresentation of benefit spending has been effective, blaming the poor, not pay structures.
(2) Casillas had been the victim of an orchestrated campaign of “vilification” in recent years which eventually prompted his decision to quit, they added.
(3) The UK has followed US trends over cannabis, heroin and psychedelics, and led the world in the vilification of MDMA (ecstasy).
(4) Both sections were introduced in response to three major independent inquiries, including the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which found that racial hatred and vilification causes psychological harm to its targets, and reinforces and normalises more severe acts of discrimination, harassment, intimidation and violence.
(5) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more An edited version of that speech was later posted online with several words omitted, making it seem as though Ahok was suggesting the Qur’anic verse itself was misleading, not the Islamic leaders citing it.
(6) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more How did that start?
(7) Protection against racial vilification which upholds freedom of speech as well as freedom from racial vilification (much like the protection we already have, at time of print at least) is probably a good idea too.
(8) This review addresses the issues of dependence on an withdrawal from benzodiazepines and weighs up the evidence for their present vilification.
(9) Brandis said the overall changes would strengthen the act by including vilification as an offence.
(10) Representatives of Muslim and Arab organisations also reported that members of their communities experienced racial and religious vilification with regular frequency, not only in verbal form, but also through offensive letters and pamphlets,” the report said.
(11) In the days that followed, the pro-army media broadcast endless hours of patriotic messages and vilification of Morsi and the Brotherhood.
(12) Bahá'ís are denied jobs in the public sector; their businesses are closed and property appropriated; and the entire community is subjected to waves of defamation and vilification in the state media.
(13) As awareness increases it exposes some negative views, and there’s often a lashing out by some members of the community at trans people.” We were also seen as dangerous by our fellow gay people Mark Gillespie She cites vilification of the writer and soldier Cate McGregor by some commentators and bloggers.
(14) Ironically, in writing her book, Chua has done the most western thing imaginable: she has exposed herself, warts and all, at risk of misunderstanding and vilification.
(15) So why did Sir Andrew break away from this comfort zone and help found an organisation that was inevitably going to bring him publicity and vilification?
(16) This is in contrast to vilification and alienation which research suggests can catalyse re-offending.
(17) In the statement, he said: "The soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification.
(18) But with an estimated one million US citizens living in Mexico – a large portion of whom are retirees – it is perhaps inevitable that some should support a candidate whose campaign has been built on the vilification of the country.
(19) Zimmerman argued while there should be laws to prevent racial vilification, people’s religious beliefs should be allowed to be criticised.
(20) MacFarlane, 39, did not comment on his vilification in the media for perceived sexism – not least on account of his opening number We Saw Your Boobs – other than to post a link to a Huffington Post blog on the proliferation of the "celebrity sideboob" in 2012.