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[ dih-trak -ter ] SHOW IPA
/ dɪˈtræk tər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a person who tries to take away from the quality, value, or reputation of someone or something; critic: There were strong reactions after the film was screened in Israel, with the public divided between detractors and admirers.
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Example sentences from the Web for detractor Either Uber will continue to dodge its detractor s, or customers will eventually find its public reputation unpalatable.
Things Are Going Downhill Fast for Uber | Kyle Chayka| December 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
His detractor s tried to undermine his standing with Reagan, but he had support from an unlikely source—hard-line conservatives.
How the Reagan White House Bungled Its Response to Iran-Contra Revelations | Malcolm Byrne| November 3, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Among her detractor s was Dr. Bob Arnot, who covered medical issues for NBC before Snyderman joined the network from ABC News.
NBC’s Soup-Loving Dr. Nancy Keeps Her Job | Lloyd Grove| October 23, 2014| DAILY BEAST
To his detractor s, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.
The Bizarre Tale of Ben Bradlee, JFK, and the Master Spy | Will Rahn| October 22, 2014| DAILY BEAST
This is where Schaeffer gets beyond the theological categories of evangelical Christians and their detractor s.
Frank Schaeffer, the Atheist Who Believes in God | Nick Tabor| August 3, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Too much has been made of Heine's superficiality by the pedants among his detractor s.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany | Georg Brandes
Hence the so-called interpolations of original evidences, for which he has been unfairly reproached by his detractor s.
The Real Shelley, Vol. I (of 2) | John Cordy Jeaffreson
His detractor s must acknowledge that it could not have been acquired by a poet destitute of merit.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) | Thomas Babington Macaulay
Their apologists said they amounted to three millions; their detractor s that they did not amount to four hundred thousand.
The Huguenots in France | Samuel Smiles.
Who is there, even among Mr Bernard Shaw's detractor s, who would wish his dramatic criticisms unwritten?
The Book of This and That | Robert Lynd
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Words related to detractor critic, censor, depreciator, defamer