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How to use detraction in a sentence

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When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.
Really the only minor detraction was the bizarre insistence at the gates that any bottled drinks had to have the caps taken off, and thrown away.
The proposals include no detraction from the archaeology as this has been, and will be carefully researched, preserved, and protected.
We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith.
Everybody knows the death sentence for sociopaths is not a detraction, it doesn't work.
Rather than act as a detraction, the film's deliberate elusiveness is precisely what makes it boldly unique.
As with other peculiar behaviours, it is supposed that an early treatment of a child can inhibit the detraction of its further development.
Their real life disabilities, far from a detraction, give their performances an edge that no CGI could replicate.
We are a city of one million people, and sometimes we acted, to our benefit and detraction, as a community of 50,000 people.
Another huge detraction for companies researching investment in a particular country is the absence of basic infrastructure.
When the first electricity pylons arrived on our landscape in 1928, they too were met with objection and detraction.
Hereafter, all motive of detraction of him would cease to exist, and Abraham Lincoln would take his place with Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, among the benefactors of his country and the human race.
Divergent interests and aspirations for personal status exacerbated the political discourse, and the coalition split into separate movements, turning to strategies of detraction.
The damage done by calumny, detraction, and talebearing can frequently not be repaired.
The detraction of discounts is subject to specific written agreements.
The rest or detraction force is adjustable from 0 to 99 kg which permits the traction force during rest periods to be adjusted to the desired level, for better treatment results in both intermittent and continuous mode.
With all my heart, I beg the friars in our Lord Jesus Christ to be on their guard against pride, boasting, envy, and greed, against the cares and anxieties of this world, against detraction and complaining.
On same reasoning, it is not a detraction from merit principle that board members were not knowledgeable about the specific organizational structure of the Saint-Quentin district.
That's because I've tried to make a career out of doing the opposite – making it coherent, part of the canvas of the production, rather than a detraction.
Some of the detraction came from his holding of the ideological trifecta most calculated to inflame liberals – believing deeply in the death penalty and Margaret Thatcher but opposing global warming.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is there one lives exempt from the assaults of censure, detraction, and calumny.
The indication is that the writer had in his mind the beast of fanaticism and detraction.
Yet there should be no detraction from the fact that the heredity is strong.
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
If I differ from high authority, I have not a thought of detraction.
Henri, regardless that envy stared and detraction whispered whenever I approached her.
The straitest ties of blood could not secure any one from his detraction.
Envy is the shadow of success, and detraction is the echo of its voice.
But they do not on this account escape the guilt of detraction.
This constant detraction and reconstruction of church principles was deeply annoying to Paul, not to say divisive of the community and personally damaging to Paul's authority.
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