The action of detracting from a person's merit or reputation; the utterance of what is depreciatory or injurious to his reputation; depreciation…

Evil speaking, defamation, slander; disrespectful or disparaging speech; an instance of this. Obsolete.

The action of slighting or disrespecting a person or thing; contemptuous treatment; contempt, disdain.

Detraction, disparagement, slander, calumny; an instance of this.

Detraction from the honour, or reputation of; lowering or lessening in value or estimation, disparagement, depreciation.

The action of disparage, v.; disparagement.

= detraction, n. 2.

The action of detract, v.; †protraction (obsolete); †shunning, avoiding (obsolete); disparagement, detraction.

Disparagement, depreciation, contempt.

With of. The action of disparaging, decrying, or belittling a person or thing; an instance of this.

An action or instance of representing something as less in some respect; detraction, disparagement, degradation. Obsolete.

Lessening of honour or reputation; derogation, depreciation, belittling. Obsolete.

The action of speaking of in a slighting or depreciatory way; depreciation, detraction, under-valuing.

Depreciation, disparagement. Obsolete.

An under-estimate of worth or importance; = undervaluation, n. 2. Obsolete.

The action of disvaluing; depreciation.

Insufficient appreciation or estimation; depreciation, disparagement.

The expression of disparagement or contempt.

The act of estimating at too low a value.

The decrying (of money); decrial.

The action of lowering in value, price, or estimation; depreciation.

The act of decrying; open disparagement.

Lowering in estimation; disparagement.

Detraction, depreciation. Cf. subtractor, n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

The action of dismissing the importance of a person or thing. Also: an instance of this.

to give one a back-cap, to disclose or state something to one's detriment; to run down. Also as v. transitive (Cent. Dict., 1889).

Speech which condemns a person as trash (see trash, n.1 4); (Sport) ostentatiously insulting or boastful rhetoric delivered with the intention of…

The action of rejecting or refusing to consider a point of view, suggestion, etc.; dismissal; criticism.