traducent

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1. obsoleterareslanderous

   Such language may be classified also as traducent under section 368 of the Penal Code.

   1921 April 15, “Appeal from the District Court of Ponce in a Prosecution for Breach of Peace”, in Porto Rico Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, volume 29

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   […] who sees the cause of nation's pride unvindicated through life by our unconfuted veracity and coherent perseverance in the cause of truth, despite the truculent fluctuations of the minds of traducent mortals, whose deadly attractions yield to the wreck which divests the soul […]

   1850, Thomas O'Donoghue, The Book of Truth, in Honour of Love and the Apostles of Life

   Froude, even the traducent and deprecatory Froude, declared that he left the world "having never spoken, never written a sentence which he did not believe with his whole heart, never stained his conscience by a single deliberate act which he could regret to remember."

   1903, “Introduction”, in Alexander Carlyle, editor, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, volume 1

   He is an intellectual— if one may use that term today without connoting anything of a disparaging or traducent significance.

   1950, Leslie Ford, Murder is the Pay-Off, page 5

   On November 3, 1864, five days before the election, Lieutenant-governor Richard T. Jacob published in the Louisville ... whose epithets' target was Breckinridge, though President Lincoln was the ostensible object of the traducent attack.

   1971, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, page 383