Word Meanings - DETRACTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

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• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DEROGATORY
  Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• DEFAMATORY
  Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
• CALUMNIOUS
  Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak. Syn: Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous;
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• DESERTNESS
  A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.
• DESERTION
  1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.