detraction

Roget category 934

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.2. Moral sentiments

#934. Detraction

noun

detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation^†, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum [Lat.].
personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade — chronique scandaleuse [Fr.] — roorback [U.S.].
sarcasm, cynicism — criticism (disapprobation) 932 — invective etc. 932 — envenomed tongue — spretae injuria formae [Lat.].
personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade — chronique scandaleuse [Fr.] — roorback [U.S.].
detractor etc. 936.

verb

detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage — run down, cry down — backcap [U.S.] — belittle — sneer at etc. (contempt) 930 — criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend^† — avile^† — give a dog a bad name, brand, malign — muckrake — backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against — speak ill of behind one's back.
fling dirt etc. (disrespect) 929 — anathematize etc. 932 — dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light.
impugn (disparage the motives of); assail, attack etc. 716 — oppose etc. 708 — denounce, accuse etc. 938.

adjective

detracting etc. v. — defamatory, detractory^†, derogatory, deprecatory — catty — disparaging, libelous — scurrile, scurrilous — abusive — foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed — slanderous — calumnious, calumniatory^† — sarcastic, sardonic — sarcastic, satirical, cynical.
critical etc. 932.

phrase

damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter — cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes" [Hamlet].

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