detraction
the act of disparaging or belittling the reputation or worth of a person, work, etc.
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How to use detraction in a sentence
There is one heavy detraction, however, from the excellence of the Avignonese climate.
Bunglers will not mend matters by blackening the great canvases they can't paint on, nor the impotent become males by detraction.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeIt is very absurd to consider criticism that is not always favourable, detraction.
There was not a word of detraction about any one—nothing to jar on one's impression of him as a refined, noble-hearted man.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotA favorite method of detraction is illustrated by the familiar story (p. 266) of Columbus's egg.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
British Dictionary definitions for detraction
/ (dɪˈtrækʃən) /
a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
the act of discrediting or detracting from another's reputation, esp by slander; disparagement
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