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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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..

Derogator :: Derogator (n.) A detractor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zoilism :: Zoilism (n.) Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; 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. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from..

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

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