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

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

Detraction :: Detraction (n.) A taking away or withdrawing.

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..

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

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.

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

Zoilism :: Zoilism (n.) Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.

Detract :: Detract (v. t.) To take away; to withdraw.

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..

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

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

Backbiting :: Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.

Detracted :: Detracted (imp. & p. p.) of Detrac.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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