Traduce

v. to lower or disgrace the reputation of; expose to shame or blame by utterance of falsehood or misrepresentation; to vilify; to slander.

While Russia was well, a foreignor could serve her and be a splendid minister; but so soon as she is in danger she needs one of her own kin. The sole result of traducing him as a traitor will be that later on, ashamed of their false accusations, they will suddenly turn him into a hero or a genius, which would be still more unfair to him. He's an honest and conscientious German....

--Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace

"Signor, said the squire, I have at length traduced my wife to consent that I shall attend your worship wheresoever you shall please to carry me." "Say reduced, and not traduced, Sancho," replied the knight.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

...an American individualist who refused to leave unexamined the orthodoxies of the customary and the established truth, an American individualist who did not always live in compliance with majority standards of decorum and taste, an American individualist par excellence was once again so savagely traduced by friends and neighbors that he lived estranged from them until his death, robbed of his moral authority by their moral stupidity.

Philip Roth, Human Stain

...verbs that hurt.