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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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