Detraction

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  • noun. The act of detracting or taking away.
  • noun. A derogatory or damaging comment on a person's character or reputation; disparagement.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A withdrawing; a taking away; removal.
  • noun. The act of disparaging or belittling the reputation or worth of a person, with the view to lessen or lower him in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating the powers or performances of another, from envy or malice.
  • noun. Synonyms Depreciation, disparagement, slander, calumny, defamation, derogation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A taking away or withdrawing.
  • noun. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of detracting something, or something detracted
  • noun. a derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander
  • noun. the act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
  • noun. a petty disparagement
    • Word Usage
    "The amazing part of the detraction is that a lot of these are the same arguments why weblogs were unnecessary and irrelevant."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    depreciation  derogation  disparagement  dispraise  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bribery  calumny  covetousness  defamation  disapprobation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aspersion  aspersion  backbiting  backstabbing  belittlement  
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