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detractory

adjective as in disparaging

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Antonyms: sojourner, pilgrim, visitor. inherent, a. innate, adhering, inexistent, inborn, inalienable. inheritable, a. hereditable. inheritance, n. heritage, patrimony, legacy. inhuman, a. savage, barbarous, fiendish, brutal, cruel. inhumanity, n. cruelty, brutality, barbarity, mercilessness. injection, n. immission, injecting; enema, clyster, lavement. injure, v. damage, harm, hurt, impair, disfigure, maim, mar, wound. injurious, a. hurtful, harmful, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, noxious, maleficent, prejudicial; defamatory, derogatory, detractory. injury, n. damage, detriment, harm, hurt, wound, impairment, mutilation, defacement, violation, lesion.

He was but condemning himself when he wrote some of the detractory things he did in the Pall Mall Magazine about the Edinburgh Edition, etc. 

In the narrower sense of the term, miracle,—that is, a consequent presented to the outward senses without an adequate antecedent, ejusdem generis,—it is not only false but detractory from the Christian religion.

Adj. detracting &c. v.; defamatory, detractory†, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory†; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical. critical &c.

Florence, fearing and hating Valentinois as she does, would doubtless take pleasure in detractory advices.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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