Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Depreciatory; calumnious; disparaging.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.

Etymologies

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From Latin dētractōrius, from dētractor.

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