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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Examples
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Florence, fearing and hating Valentinois as she does, would doubtless take pleasure in detractory advices.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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Valentinois as she does, would doubtless take pleasure in detractory advices.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He was but condemning himself when he wrote some of the detractory things he did in the _Pall Mall
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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