detracting

What is clear is that this trend is detracting from our system of government.

Is putting on a little dog-and-pony show every now and then detracting from the feminist cause?

This uncompromising Realism, so far from detracting, only enhances the genius of this powerful novel.

Send to table without adding or detracting from their flavour.

Let not this record of a boy's impressions be read as detracting from the luster shining about the memory of Margaret Fuller.

The river, in full freshet, was very muddy-looking, detracting much from the beauty of the rapids.

It adds to the color of Mr. Kingsley's pages, while detracting from his authority, that he is always and inevitably a partisan.