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A disparaging statement or action that diminishes someone's merit.
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detraction
The biography distinguished fair criticism from personal detraction.
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The organizer's derision of one student's careful notes took the form of contemptuous imitation intended to make the rest of the room laugh at her. A subsequent message added detraction by dismissing her useful observations as the work of someone incapable of understanding anything technical.
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