Word Meanings - TRADUCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall. 2. One who derives or deduces. Fuller.

DEFAMER
One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
CALUMNIATORY
Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu.
BACKBITER
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
CYNICALNESS
The quality of being cynical.
CYNIC; CYNICAL
1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. 2. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic
CYNIC
1. One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term
MALIGNER
One who maligns.
SLANDERER
One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
TRADUCER
1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall. 2. One who derives or deduces. Fuller.
CALUMNIATOR
One who calumniates. Syn. -- Slanderer; defamer; libeler; traducer.
CYNICISM
The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opnions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.
CYNICALLY
In a cynical manner.
DETRACTOR
One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay. Syn. -- Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
DETRACTORY
Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.