To traduce is to badmouth someone or something. If you don't want people talking trash about you, then don't traduce them either even if they started it.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down;
Verb
speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere"
v. t.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce
mental qualities to one's descendants.
v. t.
To translate from one language to another; as, to
traduce and compose works.
v. t.
To increase or distribute by propagation.
v. t.
To draw away; to seduce.
v. t.
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to
make an example of.
v. t.
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as
blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
Traduce
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.4.
I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers.5.
The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.
He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down;
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