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

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

Detracting :: Detracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obtrectation :: Obtrectation (n.) Slander; detraction; calumny.

Defamation :: Defamation (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion..

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..

Derogator :: Derogator (n.) A detractor.

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

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

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).

Detractingly :: Detractingly (adv.) In a detracting manner.

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