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41detraction — [n] misrepresentation; slander abuse, aspersion, backbiting*, backstabbing*, belittlement, calumny, damage, defamation, denigration, deprecation, derogation, disesteem, disparagement, harm, hit, hurt, injury, injustice, innuendo, insinuation,… …
42libelous — [adj] derogatory aspersive, backbiting, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, debasing, defamatory, depreciative, detracting, detractory, disparaging, false, injurious, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, opprobrious, pejorative,… …
43scandalous — [adj] disreputable atrocious, backbiting, calumnious, crying, defamatory, desperate, detracting, detractive, disgraceful, gossiping, heinous, ignominious, infamous, libelous, maligning, monstrous, odious, opprobrious, outrageous, red hot*,… …
44privilege of telegraph company — Absence of liability in transmitting a defamatory message, except where the transmitting agent of the telegraph company happened to know that the message was spurious or that the sender was acting, not in the protection of any legitimate interest …
45traduce — [trə do͞os′, trədyo͞os′] vt. traduced, traducing [L traducere, to lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace < tra(ns), across, over + ducere, to lead: see TRANS & DUCT] 1. to say untrue or malicious things about; defame; slander; vilify 2.… …
46traduction — trəˈdəkshən noun Etymology: Late Latin traduction , traductio, from Latin, act of transferring, from traductus (past participle of traducere to lead across, transfer) + ion , io ion 1. : the act or an instance of traducing; specifically : an act… …
47tra|duc|tion — «truh DUHK shuhn», noun. 1. Logic. the transfer or transition from one classification or order of reasoning to another. 2. the act of traducing or maligning. 3. Obsolete. a translation, as into another language. 4. Obsolete. a transmission by… …
48traducent — traducent, a. rare. (trəˈdjuːsənt) [ad. L. trādūcent em, pr. pple. of trādūcĕre to traduce.] Traducing, slanderous. 1730–6 in Bailey (folio) …
