detractory

  • 41detractive — adj 1. belittling, disparaging, demeaning, deflating, derogatory, derogative, derogating, detractory, detracting, depreciatory, depreciative, depreciating, devaluating; humiliating, humbling, mortifying; lampooning, caricaturing, ridiculing,… …

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  • 42injurious — adj 1. harmful, hurtful, pernicious, baneful, deleterious, damaging; disadvantageous, detrimental, unfavorable; fell, dire, ruinous, destructive, disastrous, calamitous; vicious, malignant, malign, malevolent, maleficent; corruptive, corrupting,… …

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  • 43vituperative — adj 1. censorious, reproachful, denunciatory, damnatory, objurgatory, imprecatory, fulminatory, execratory, animadversional, commina tory, Obs. exprobratory; abusive, injurious, harsh, virulent, scurrilous, withering, caustic, corrosive;… …

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  • 44detractive — /dəˈtræktɪv/ (say duh traktiv) adjective tending or seeking to detract; depreciative. Also, detractory /dəˈtræktəri/ (say duh traktuhree). –detractively, adverb …

  • 45invidious — [adj] hateful abominable, calumnious, defamatory, detestable, detracting, detractive, detractory, discriminatory, envious, envying, green eyed*, jealous, libelous, maligning, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repugnant, scandalous, slanderous,… …

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  • 46libelous — [adj] derogatory aspersive, backbiting, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, debasing, defamatory, depreciative, detracting, detractory, disparaging, false, injurious, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, opprobrious, pejorative,… …

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  • 47pejorative — [adj] negative, belittling debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, disadvantageous, disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, uncomplimentary, unpleasant; concept 267 Ant. complimentary,… …

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