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Detractor   /ditrˈæktər/   Listen
Detractor

noun
1.
One who disparages or belittles the worth of something.  Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker.





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"Detractor" Quotes from Famous Books



... scene of the day before had moved me profoundly. Vanity is not a failing of which I am ever likely to be accused by my worst detractor, yet it was impossible for me to shut my eyes or ears to the confession which had been made with equal eloquence by the looks, the blushes and even the ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... tell just what Brown himself thought of his detractor, and of the paper that he conducted; for in July, 1858, writing to F.G. Sanborn, he says: "I believe all honest, sensible Free State men in Kansas consider George Washington Brown's Herald of Freedom ...
— John Brown: A Retrospect - Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. • Alfred Roe


Words linked to "Detractor" :   maligner, muckraker, cynic, mudslinger, vilifier, slanderer, knocker, detract, backbiter, hatemonger, libeler, defamer, traducer, faultfinder


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