Posted on 01/24/2013 4:29:13 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
traduce \truh – DOOS\ verb
1. to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
2. violate, betray
Example sentences:
At the apex of the journalist's career, a jealous rival attempted to traduce her name with false allegations.
"In his introductory remarks, Stuart Proffitt, publishing director of Penguin Press and chairman of the prize committee, praised the BBC as the greatest cultural institution in the history of the world.... Here, at last, was someone prepared publicly to speak up for the BBC when so many others were seeking to traduce and destroy it."
— From an article by Jason Cowley in New Statesman, November 19, 2012
Fun facts:
"Traduce" is one of a number of English synonyms that you can choose when you need a word that means "to injure by speaking ill of." Choose "traduce" when you want to stress the deep personal humiliation, disgrace, and distress felt by the victim. If someone doesn't actually lie, but makes statements that injure by specific and often subtle misrepresentations, "malign" may be the more precise choice. To make it clear that the speaker is malicious and the statements made are false, "calumniate" is a good option. But if you need to say that certain statements represent an attempt to destroy a reputation by open and direct abuse, "vilify" is the word you want.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
i know that’s the traditional wisdom, that more conservative wins elections, but i don’t know if that will continue to hold true. Romney may not have been the perfect candidate, but i do not think anyone else would have had a chance against the Devil’s Own either. It may not even be that more conservative wins, but rather that the one with the biggest b@!!s wins. figurative ones of course. bc a ballsy woman could certainly do it.
Teddy K. led the charge to traduce
Robert Bork, with his hands on the noose
The Senate Lion of reknown
(Had left a woman to drown)
Cast aspersions with “facts” fast and loose
Not to don a tin-foil hat or anything, but....
In my heart of hearts, I think that the GOP could have run a 100% PERFECT Candidate, and he/she STILL would not have won, due to massive election fraud, the mechanisms of which, I believe, have been in place since the 2010 “Shellacking”.
As Stalin said:
It is not who votes that matters,
But who COUNTS the votes.
I am envisioning things flying across the room behind him, boys being tackled, and empty pizza boxes lying all around while your son stands at the foreman grill with tongs in his hand. ;^)
It's common to see "Il Duce" traduce his political opposition...
To traduce is the Obama way
he wants what he wants today
arrogant as can be
only his way you see
why can’t he just go away?
The Republican Senators traduced Hillary’s weak spots by their sharp questions. is it true that NO Dem senators had a single question for her on Benghazi? Although i’ve beenavoiding the news, I heard that last night. NO questions. None. Zip. Nada.
Blinded by the light
revved up like traduce
another runner in the night
I trust Rush to have done the research on it and he states it as fact frequently.
I’m pinging Grim to his favorite target of derision. A+ for you!
That is a troubling but not impossible thing to imagine.
there is def that too, ITA.
A+ for you. I really dislike this guy almost as much as his agenda.
there is def that too, ITA. Libs are leaving nothing to chance if they can remotely help it.
A+ for you. I wish they would all go far, far away.
as i said it may have been true in the past, but after this election and the clear distinction presented between the two choices, and morons voted that in? well i think research is irrelevant and it remains to be seen how it shakes out in future. i honestly could not imagine him being elected the first time, and then REALLY thought, OMG who will vote for him THIS time around when it’s clear what he’s up to, and still we lost. Yes, moronic, cut-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face type conservatives sat this out and hence were votes Romney did not get. If it had been, i don’t know, Newt, Santorum, instead and those moronic conservatives would have come out to vote for them, there would have been an equal if not greater number of more moderate voters who would have sat it out or voted obams. i honestly see NO hope.
cool phenomenon but i’d be leery of the NO radioactive aspect.
I refuse to give up and will fight with my last breath to get my country back.
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