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Substrate :: Substractor (n.) A detractor; a slanderer.

Disparagement :: Disparagement (n.) Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.

Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy..

Detract :: Detract (v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from..

Detracor :: Detracor (n.) One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.

Derogator :: Derogator (n.) A detractor.

Ostentation :: Ostentation (n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to detractor draw.

Detractiveness :: Detractiveness (n.) The quality of being detractive.

Dispraise :: Dispraise (v. t.) The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.

Depravation :: Depravation (n.) Detraction; depreciation.

Derogate :: Derogate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.

Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

Detracter :: Detracter (n.) One who detracts; a detractor.

Defamer :: Defamer (n.) One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

Detractive :: Detractive (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.

Derogation :: Derogation (n.) The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to..

Derogatory :: Derogatory (a.) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto..

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