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

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

Detractious :: Detractious (a.) Containing detraction; detractory.

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

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

Backbiter :: Backbiter (n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Detractory :: Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.

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.

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

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.

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

Detract :: Detract (v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.

Detraction :: 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..

Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.

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

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).

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

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

Derogate :: Derogate (v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.

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