detractor

To supporters and detractors alike, Cheney was widely viewed as the engine that drove the Bush White House.

“Some of our detractors have been left in a kind of deranged and self-destructive befuddlement.”

He lies so relentlessly that even his detractors become mentally fatigued as the brain’s basic truth-tracking mechanisms begin to short-circuit.

Mamdani was able to snag the spotlight while painting detractors as grotesque, and all without him having to express an ounce of anger.

Nearly 50 people spoke up at Tuesday’s meeting, with detractors also expressing concerns about water use and pollution from burning the gas.