Detraction is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 989 anagrams from letters in detraction (acdeinortt).
1300-50; Middle English (Anglo-French) Late Latin dētractiōn- (stem of dētractiō), equivalent to Latin dētract(us) (see detract) + -iōn- -ion
It is there one lives exempt from the assaults of censure, detraction, and calumny.
The indication is that the writer had in his mind the beast of fanaticism and detraction.
detraction can be conveyed by silence as well as by a forked tongue.
If I differ from high authority, I have not a thought of detraction.
The straitest ties of blood could not secure any one from his detraction.
Envy is the shadow of success, and detraction is the echo of its voice.
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
But they do not on this account escape the guilt of detraction.
It was no detraction from its merit that it might be all acting, for it was still "high art."
Yet there should be no detraction from the fact that the heredity is strong.
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