detraction

detraction is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A taking away or withdrawing. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A taking away or withdrawing.
2. noun. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
3. 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"

4. noun. a petty disparagement

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in detraction:

doctrinate, tetarconid

Common word forms

detractions

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