traducing

The play’s unknown author centers a subplot on a raving bigot named Swetnam, who is fond of traducing women.

“There’s a rhetoric of reaction which seeks to claim that it’s defending these higher values, which, perversely, often are the very values it’s traducing,” he said.

It’s an approach now so mainstream that it’s become an orthodoxy of its own; it’s difficult to think of a writer today, of any genre, who doesn’t congratulate herself for traducing artificial binaries.

Just as Mabey wonders if we can extract wellbeing from an environment we are traducing, so Jones considers the 21st-century challenge posed by ecological grief.

Calling someone a “flirt” isn’t seen as an insult, but in some cases it might serve as a snide sort of traducing.