Associations to the word «Detraction»

Wiktionary

DETRACTION, noun. The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
DETRACTION, noun. A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
DETRACTION, noun. (Roman Catholic Church) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

Dictionary definition

DETRACTION, noun. A petty disparagement.
DETRACTION, noun. The act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King