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detraction
noun
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A disparaging statement or action that diminishes someone's merit.
The biography distinguished fair criticism from personal detraction.
Dictionary practice example.
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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