detraction

The kid from 40 miles away is right at home with doubt and detraction.

This was an added bit of atmosphere and not a detraction.

But still he didn't understand her, which was no detraction to the first two factors.

They found the lack of variety a greater detraction from the game than the compromised dynamic world.

Detraction: the disclosure of another's faults without a valid reason.

"Ten years ago, condo developers considered a food store a detraction," he said.

But now the chorus of detraction is growing louder.

He would not spread "detraction," or in modern terms, slander.

Taxation as a public mechanism for detraction was still not formalized.

"I was surprised that what might have been a detraction hasn't been."

In special relativity, relativistic mass has support and detraction by physicists.

This was used as a detraction to make Smith look like he borrowed a Latin name.

This national industry is the subject of constant detraction, satire, and ridicule by the newspaper press.

Detraction and calumny are seriously sinful, being sins against justice.

It is no detraction from the high quality of the essays to focus on a problematic aspect of the book.

Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

To him, democracy was a detraction that colonialists would use to destabilise newly independent countries.

"Detraction, usually associated with calumny, both being unjust injuries to the good name of another.

This time, the captain ignored the detraction.

After a book entitled Detraction Displayed and contributions to periodicals, she wrote nothing more.

Detraction will not suffer it.

First, the Willow World is presently intermingled with the real world to the detraction of both.

As in the case of stealing, detraction is a sin which demands restitution, even though rebuilding a victim's reputation may be nearly impossible.

Critical reception to the album has been mixed, with its varied genres being cited as a detraction by several reviewers.

But to give that tall man his due, he was not given with all his talk to tale-bearing or scandal or detraction.