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Definition of Detractive

Detractive
Detractive De*tract"ive, a. 1. Tending to detractor draw. [R.] 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.

Meaning of Detractive from wikipedia

- In Christian theology, detraction is the sin of revealing another person's real faults to a third person without a valid reason, thereby lessening the...
- it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from YMCA's primary mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges...
- initially refraining from responding to this, believing it would have detracted from the Me Too movement, Perry has also denied Kloss's claims. Following...
- Lesmone detrahens, the detracted owlet, is an owlet moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. The MONA or...
- Shepard flight. Since May 2018, tweet replies deemed by an algorithm to be detractive from the conversation are initially hidden and only loaded by actuating...
- criticism. H. L. Mencken believed Fitzgerald's myopic focus upon the rich detracted from the broader relevance of his societal observations. He argued that...
- and punishing them. Thus they function as angels of heaven and do not detract from its monotheistic government of the world. With such a high monotheism...
- acknowledgement of this epidemic has been seen as one of the greatest detractions in her retrospective public regard. However, there has been reporting...
- appelation "Andalusi music" as an unprecedented colonial invention "meant to detract from [the musical form's] Arabness and [Moroccans'] intellectual and artistic...
- by the rainstorm, the watering wastes precious water, and the watering detracts the gardener from other important preparatory groundwork". Some scholars...