Crossword clues for detractor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detractor \De*tract"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. d['e]tracteur.] One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
His detractors were noisy and scurrilous.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French detractour, Old French detractor "detractor, backbiter," from Latin detractor, agent noun from detrahere (see detraction).
Wiktionary
n. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
WordNet
n. one who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: disparager, depreciator, knocker]
Usage examples of "detractor".
This cut the ground from under the feet of his detractors, for in a town of the calibre of Asuncion the people looked on a service in a church as a welcome means of getting through the day, and had he celebrated a dozen masses they would but have been more delighted with their new Bishop.
Some of his detractors, and many friends, noted privately that this was perhaps not the most becoming choice for his otherwise bold face.
Thus they were beating their detractors to the punch by making the admission themselves.
You were, to put it as I fear the press will put it, as my detractors in Congress and the Senate will put it, a foreign red.
Democrat detractors in the ranks, just as there are Republicans who hold the pro-death position.
Shimrra has detractors in other quarters-the Quorealists, for instance, who sup-ported the predecessor he slew to attain power.
Paris, who yesterday would have torn his detractors limb from limb, would on the morrow be dragging him, with hoots and yells and howls of execration, to the scaffold.
Such claims have been made about reviled groups by their detractors throughout European history, including the Cataline conspirators in Rome, the Passover `blood libel' against the Jews, and the Knights Templar as they were being dismantled in fourteenth-century France.
Such claims have been made about reviled groups by their detractors throughout European history, including the Cataline conspirators in Rome, the Passover 'blood libel' against the Jews, and the Knights Templar as they were being dismantled in fourteenth-century France.
Without breaking pace, Tzigone caught an orange and hurled it at her detractor.
To do this right they needed to give their detractors the chance to go berserk and lose their cool, to promise to take away their jobs and pensions, and to threaten them with prosecution, and they needed them do it all right in front of the president.
It is said by his detractors, though, that he did accept these proffers, but was later betrayed himself, so giving his sympathies back to suffering mankind for the rest of his days, which were few.
One crystal step above and behind the youthful firebrand, unobserved by either his supporters or detractors, nor by the watchful eyes of the vigilant safeties, Gorgan watched with pleasure as the public debate grew more heated.
He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour, but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place.