Definitions for detractions

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detractions de·trac·tion

Spelling: [dih-trak-shuh n]

IPA: /dɪˈtræk ʃən/

Detractions is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 2039 anagrams from letters in detractions (acdeinorstt).

Definitions for detractions

noun

1. the act of disparaging or belittling the reputation or worth of a person, work, etc.

Origin of detractions

1300-50; Middle English (Anglo-French) Late Latin dētractiōn- (stem of dētractiō), equivalent to Latin dētract(us) (see detract) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for detractions

It is there one lives exempt from the assaults of censure, detraction, and calumny.

Envy is the shadow of success, and detraction is the echo of its voice.

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.

Yet there should be no detraction from the fact that the heredity is strong.

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.

It was no detraction from its merit that it might be all acting, for it was still "high art."

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.