detractor

  • 21detractor — [[t]dɪtræ̱ktə(r)[/t]] detractors N COUNT: usu pl, usu with poss The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing. [JOURNALISM] This performance will silence many of his detractors... The news will have delighted… …

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  • 22detractor — de trac·tor || tÉ™ n. one that insults; informer; one who belittles or derogates …

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  • 23detractor — ra adj. El que habla mal de uno. Difamador …

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  • 24detractor — noun a person who is critical of someone or something …

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  • 25detractor — n. Slanderer, defamer, calumniator, vilifier, depreciator, asperser …

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  • 26detractor — noun (C) someone who says bad things about someone or something, in order to make them seem less good than they really are: The President s detractors expressed their usual low expectations of his policies …

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  • 27detractor — noun detractors never deterred me from pursuing my art Syn: critic, disparager, denigrator, deprecator, belittler, attacker, fault finder, backbiter; slanderer, libeler; informal knocker …

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  • 28detractor — n 1. belittler, disparager, deprecator, derogator, depredator; lampooner, satirist, muckrak er, hack; defamer, vilifier, vilipender, denigrator, scandalizer, impugner, asperser, backbiter, maligner, evil speaker, carper, caviler, Inf. knocker;… …

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  • 29detractor — de·trac·tor …

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  • 30detractor — noun one who disparages or belittles the worth of something (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑disparager, ↑depreciator, ↑knocker • Derivationally related forms: ↑depreciate (for: ↑depreciator), ↑ …

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