as in criticism
the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant
her inevitable detraction of every new idea is annoying to the other club members
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Recent Examples of detraction
Many smart investors, among them, several of my colleagues, cannot warm up to these stocks because of such obvious detractions as the lack of new products, patent expirations, and price controls.
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Karen Firestone, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
That means that the overriding security responsibility will be left in Israel's hands, and that's a detraction of sovereign powers.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
That the Rangers are the only team to not celebrate Pride Month wasn't a detraction, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said before the game.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 17 July 2024
Another aspect of the process that Gilbert can expertly speak on is that with success comes detraction and criticism.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
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Karen Firestone, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
That means that the overriding security responsibility will be left in Israel's hands, and that's a detraction of sovereign powers.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
That the Rangers are the only team to not celebrate Pride Month wasn't a detraction, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said before the game.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 17 July 2024
Another aspect of the process that Gilbert can expertly speak on is that with success comes detraction and criticism.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for detraction
Noun
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Trump’s administration was right to send an emissary after ICE’s Hyundai raid to express regret and negotiate a new business visa process for South Koreans, despite criticism from the more anti-immigrant MAGA base.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Rimes has described experiencing cycles of praise and harsh criticism — both as a child star and during her affair with Cibrian.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Evaluating defamation claims where the report contains demonstrably false factual assertions.—
Tim Reynolds,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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But this would not cancel the defamation judgments.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Fed’s achievements in stabilizing markets during the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid pandemic, and in bringing down inflation while avoiding recession in recent years, deserve praise rather than disparagement.—
Bill Dudley,
Twin Cities,
16 Aug. 2025
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Patel had sought $10 million in damages on claims of defamation, injurious falsehood and business disparagement.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
15 Aug. 2025
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The United Kingdom, France, Australia and Canada, amongst a number of other western countries, have announced their recognition of Palestine, drawing condemnation from Netanyahu.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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While many governments defended Israel's initial right to respond to the attack, the scale of civilian death and suffering wrought by its war have drawn increasing international condemnation and isolation for the Jewish state.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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The government has had to deploy millions of dollars and reintroduce some exchange controls to fend off further depreciation on the peso in the past week.—
Nicolle Yapur,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Gross profit margins expanded by 130 basis points and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization tallied 45 million euros.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
25 Sep. 2025
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McCrary's former partner cited concerns about the child's safety in his care, and the court ordered him to have monitored visitation and to attend classes on parenting and for drug and alcohol abuse and batterer intervention, PEOPLE reported.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
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McCrary was ordered to attend alcohol and drug abuse and batterers’ intervention classes within 12 months and was granted visits with their daughter.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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The human costs of this are the increasing rates of illnesses and the financial costs of health care, lost productivity, and the compounding problems of further environmental denigration.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The growing obsession over the film festival standing ovation and the reaction to it from the stars has — for some — become a source of ridicule.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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Students should be encouraged to converse with their AI tutor without fear of ridicule for asking questions in class.—
Steve Grubbs,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Detraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detraction. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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