detracting

English

Adjective

detracting (comparative more detracting, superlative most detracting)

1. That detracts.
   • 1837, Benjamin Franklin Foster, Education Reform, page 81:

     Neither is there any thing in the condition of the laborer, more taxing to human exertion, more detracting from honorable self-respect, than any other occupation; on the contrary, agriculture, if we reason from realities, and not prejudices, is the truly noble occupation of life.

   • 1889, Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-year, volume 2, page 19:

     "In vino veritas," properly translated, means—that when a man is fairly under the influence of liquor, you see a strong manifestation of his real character. The vain man is vainer, the voluble, more voluble, the morose, more morose; the passionate, more passionate, the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth.

   • 2012, Dattajirao K. Salunkhe, ‎Narayana R. Bhat, ‎Babasaheb B. Desai, Postharvest Biotechnology of Flowers and Ornamental Plants, page 150:

     Probably nothing is more detracting and dissatisfying than buying a potted flowering plant which quits flowering as soon as it is taken home.

Derived terms

• detractingly

 

Verb

detracting

1. present participle and gerund of detract

Noun

detracting (plural detractings)

1. detraction; slander
   • 1844, Charles Marshall, The Journal: Together with Sundry Epistles and Other Writings:

     Emulations, heart-risings, evil jealousies, bitter speakings, detractings, and abundance of evil fruit, arise from this root of bitterness […]