| Concept: | Detraction. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
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"damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter; "cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; "foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; "soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; "virtue itself
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