traducent

adj

1. (obsolete, rare)slanderous

   “[…] who sees the cause of nation's pride unvindicated through life by our unconfuted veracity and coherent perseverance in the cause of truth, despite the truculent fluctuations of the minds of traducent mortals, whose deadly attractions yield to the wreck which divests the soul […]”

   “Froude, even the traducent and deprecatory Froude, declared that he left the world "having never spoken, never written a sentence which he did not believe with his whole heart, never stained his conscience by a single deliberate act which he could regret to remember."”

   “Such language may be classified also as traducent under section 368 of the Penal Code.”

   “He is an intellectual— if one may use that term today without connoting anything of a disparaging or traducent significance.”

   “On November 3, 1864, five days before the election, Lieutenant-governor Richard T. Jacob published in the Louisville ... whose epithets' target was Breckinridge, though President Lincoln was the ostensible object of the traducent attack.”