Crossword-Solution: DETRACTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detraction | n. | A taking away or withdrawing. |
| Detraction | n. | 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. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “DETRACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation | 1 answer |
| DEGREE reduction | 1 answer |
| Understatement | 4 answers |
| belittlement | 8 answers |
| Vilification | 8 answers |
| denigration | 12 answers |
| BACKSTABBING | 14 answers |
| disparagement | 17 answers |
| Depreciation. | 19 answers |
| Calumny | 30 answers |
| Impertinence | 31 answers |
| Derision | 33 answers |
| Defamation | 33 answers |
| whisper | 34 answers |
| Impiety | 34 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| Spite | 44 answers |
| Insolence | 44 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| Malediction | 62 answers |
| CALL names | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| Reflection | 66 answers |
| Humiliation | 70 answers |
| discourtesy | 73 answers |
| Blemish | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DETRACTION (5)
And the philosopher holding converse with the divine order, becomes orderly and divine, as far as the nature of man allows; but like every one else, he will suffer from detraction.
Trenor, who had treasures of easy-going tolerance for those who were amusing or useful to her, and in the noisy rush of whose existence the still small voice of detraction was slow to make itself heard.
Envy, malice, and detraction meet them in all their forms; they are assailed by combinations of rich and unscrupulous persons to wrest from them the profits of their ingenuity; and last and worst of all, the successful inventor often finds his claims to originality decried, and himself branded as a copyist and a pirate.
Detraction, which always pursues merit with strides proportioned to its advancement, has indeed alleged that Dick once upon a time painted a horse with five legs, instead of four.
They were always jealous of the beauty of each other, of a quality to which solicitude can add nothing, and from which detraction can take nothing away.
Quotes with DETRACTION (2)
We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness; — and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction.