malignment vs traducement

malignment and traducement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malignment	Yes	No	No	No
traducement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, traducement is a hypernym of malignment; that is, traducement is a word with a broader meaning than malignment:

malignment: slanderous defamation
traducement: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

Other hypernyms of malignment include calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy.

malignment (noun)	traducement (noun)
slanderous defamation	a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions