detractor

Roget category 936

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

#936. Detractor

noun

detractor, reprover — censor, censurer — cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur — barracker^†.
defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker^†, Thersites^† — Zoilus — good-natured friend [Iron.] — reviler, vituperator, castigator — shrew etc. 901 — muckraker.
disapprover, laudator temporis acti [Lat.] [Horace].

adjective

black-mouthed, abusive etc. 934.

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