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• n  a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

• When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most .

• defamation
• calumny
• calumniation
• obloquy
• hatchet job

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• Kevin Rudd in The Australian
  THE "traducement of democracy in Fiji" will be the core issue discussed by leaders at the Pacific Island Forum regardless of Fijian interim Prime Minister and coup leader Frank Bainimarama's decision not to attend, Kevin Rudd said today.