detraction

How To Use detraction In A Sentence

• These small detractions don't stop Raimi's film from being a superlative movie, a rare sequel that betters its predecessor, a rare blockbuster that has an emotional heart.
• Now, contumely, as you will remark, does not seek primarily to deprive one of a good name; which it nearly always succeeds in doing, and this is called detraction; but its object is to prevent your good name from getting its desert of respect, your character supposedly remaining intact. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
• The amazing part of the detraction is that a lot of these are the same arguments why weblogs were unnecessary and irrelevant. Gillmor on Fire
• There are even cases where the judge can set aside the order of payment to the detraction of the first payees. Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Reynolds Urges Federal Default
• It would surprise a great many to learn who this person was, but as no detraction is intended, I will dismiss the subject at once. At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative
• Having him as more of a central character in the film took away the edge, he became more on an ‘everyman’, a detraction from the character they’re trying to build … the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Let me quickly address, Iron Man 2 is awesome and serves the franchise well, but I also left the theatre with the feeling that the entire thing was a big set-up of the forth-coming Avengers film. REVIEW: The Super Ensemble of IRON MAN 2 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
• Carthage were three bishops together at dinner, and one of them spake evil by detraction of S. Ambrose, and there was a man that told what was befallen for such language to this aforesaid priest, but he mocked and japed so much that he felt a stroke mortal; that that same day he died and was buried. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
• I sound like a broken record, but this kind of detraction from our one goal in November is so typical of some so called "Democrats", it will be hard enough to deal with the Republicans and now this. Election Central Saturday Roundup
• Really the only minor detraction was the bizarre insistence at the gates that any bottled drinks had to have the caps taken off, and thrown away.
• When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.