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detractive
[dih-trak-tiv]
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- detractively adverb
- detractiveness noun
- nondetractive adjective
- nondetractively adverb
- nondetractory adjective
- undetractive adjective
- undetractively adverb
- undetractory adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of detractive1
Example Sentences
By naming Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as his top campaign executive, Trump is taking a detractive, rather than additive approach to voter engagement, even among would-be allies on the right. Recently,
Beyond this, the detractive gossip attacked the personnel of the new company.
Well, I'll knock under; I'll agree to your high estimate of them, intellectually and morally, only with that detractive element of poverty which makes even clever men submissive, and occasionally squeezes conscience into a compromise.
Doth a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detractive, consider with thyself whether his reproaches be true.
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