Thesaurus / detractive
FEEDBACKHow to use detractive in a sentence
Notwithstanding this detractive feature, Mistress Betty was a good-hearted soul.
ANDE TREMBATHMATTHEW STANLEY KEMPBeyond this, the detractive gossip attacked the personnel of the new company.
THE REAL MANFRANCIS LYNDEWORDS RELATED TO DETRACTIVE
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- maligning
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
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