Crossword clues for detracted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detract \De*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Detracting.] [L. detractus, p. p. of detrahere to detract; de + trahere to draw: cf. F. d['e]tracter. See Trace.]
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To take away; to withdraw.
Detract much from the view of the without.
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To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do.
--Drayton.Syn: To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: detract)
Usage examples of "detracted".
The knowledge that it was a dream, however, in no way detracted from the feeling of menace as they rushed toward me.
The fact that he had obviously been reading it because I was coming in no way detracted from the compliment.
Syphax had died shortly before at Tibur whither he had been transferred from Alba, but his removal, if it detracted from the interest of the spectacle, in no way dimmed the glory of the triumphing general.
This detracted a little from the tone of injury in which the protests and demands had been couched.
Zouga was irritated and angry with her, for she had detracted from his own vaulting pleasure in his first elephant hunt.
From being the merciless bearer of the King's justice, he found himself waiting like a timid suitor outside the gate in the thorn barrier, and every second detracted from his dignity.
He would not have detracted anything from the commonness and cheapness of the 'mise en scene', for that, he reflected drowsily and confusedly, helped to give it an air of fact and make it like an episode of fiction.
The Ohio man met the overture from a common invalidism as if it detracted from his own distinction.
Only the obscenity growing in her body, wracking her with agony the drugs could never quite overcome, detracted from the beauty of her body, mind and soul.
Not content with converting the craft's very considerable hold -- it was, after all, originally constructed as a cargo vessel -- into cabins and bathrooms, he had constructed on the deck a bridge, saloon and galley which, while admittedly functional, detracted notably from the overall aesthetic effect.
The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing from the bravery of the movement.
The ruling noble classes in particular, since they derived their wealth from the tribute paid by defeated nations, insisted that any peaceful commerce detracted from their due portion of war-won plunder, and so they inveighed against "mere trade.
And, since so many were similarly blemished, they did not feel that it detracted from their beauty.
Both popes naturally detested it because it detracted from their authority.
The just-emptied bottle in her hand detracted, a bit, from the majesty of the gesture.