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- detraction
collapse - the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken"
- a petty disparagement related words >
- abuse,
- animadversion,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- bitchiness,
- calumniation,
- cattiness,
- contumely,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- disparagement,
- invective,
- libel,
- obloquy,
- opprobrium,
- reflection,
- revilement,
- scandal,
- scurrility,
- slander,
- stricture,
- tale,
- traducement,
- vilification,
- vituperation
- defamation
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- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions related words >
- attack,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- blackening,
- calumny,
- character assassination,
- defamation of character,
- defilement,
- denigration,
- depreciation,
- disparagement,
- malicious defamation,
- muckraking,
- mudslinging,
- name-calling,
- revilement,
- scandal,
- slander,
- smear,
- smear campaign,
- smear word,
- tale,
- vilification
- belittling
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- the act of belittling
- tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" related words >
- abusive,
- back-biting,
- belittlement,
- bitchy,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- comedown,
- contempt,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- decrial,
- defamatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciation,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogation,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detraction,
- detractory,
- disapproval,
- discrediting,
- disgrace,
- disparagement,
- disparaging,
- faint praise,
- indignity,
- knocking,
- libelous,
- lukewarm support,
- minification,
- minimization,
- minimizing,
- pejorative,
- putting down,
- qualification,
- ridiculing,
- scandalous,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- sour grapes,
- vilifying
- character assassination
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- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation related words >
- attack,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- blackening,
- calumny,
- defamation,
- defamation of character,
- defilement,
- denigration,
- depreciation,
- dirt,
- dirty politics,
- disparagement,
- gossip column,
- juicy morsel,
- last-minute lie,
- malicious defamation,
- malicious gossip,
- muckraking,
- mudslinging,
- mudslinging campaign,
- name-calling,
- political canard,
- revilement,
- roorback,
- scandal,
- scandalmongering,
- slander,
- smear,
- smear campaign,
- smear word,
- tidbit,
- vilification,
- whispering campaign
- slander
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- words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another related words >
- asperse,
- assail,
- attack,
- backbite,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- barefaced lie,
- belie,
- belittlement,
- bitchiness,
- blackwash,
- calumniate,
- calumniation,
- calumny,
- cattiness,
- character assassination,
- consummate lie,
- damage,
- decry,
- defamation,
- defamation of character,
- defame,
- denigrate,
- depreciation,
- dirt,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- gossip column,
- hurt,
- injure,
- juicy morsel,
- libel,
- malicious gossip,
- malign,
- misrepresentation,
- monstrous lie,
- muckrake,
- muckraking,
- obloquy,
- out-and-out lie,
- roorback,
- scandal,
- scandalmongering,
- slur,
- smear,
- strumpet,
- tale,
- tear down,
- the big lie,
- tidbit,
- traduce,
- traducement,
- vilification,
- vilify,
- whispering campaign,
- whopper
- sycophancy
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- fawning obsequiousness related words >
- adulation,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backbiting,
- backscratching,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calumny,
- compliment,
- cringing,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- disparagement,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- grease,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- oil,
- palaver,
- parasitism,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- prostration,
- scandal,
- slander,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sponging,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- wheedling
- libel
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- the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks
- a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- print slanderous statements against; "The newspaper was accused of libeling him" related words >
- affidavit,
- allegation,
- asperse,
- aspersion,
- backbite,
- backbiting,
- bad-mouth,
- barefaced lie,
- belittle,
- belittlement,
- besmirch,
- bill,
- bill of complaint,
- bitchiness,
- blacken,
- blot,
- burlesque,
- calumniate,
- calumniation,
- calumny,
- caricature,
- cattiness,
- claim,
- complaint,
- consummate lie,
- declaration,
- defamation,
- defame,
- denigrate,
- denigration,
- denounce,
- denunciation,
- deposition,
- deprecate,
- deprecation,
- depreciate,
- depreciation,
- derogate,
- derogation,
- discredit,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- falsehood,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- ill repute,
- innuendo,
- insinuate,
- insinuation,
- lie,
- malign,
- misrepresent,
- misrepresentation,
- monstrous lie,
- mortification,
- mortify,
- narratio,
- nolle prosequi,
- nonsuit,
- obloquy,
- out-and-out lie,
- prevarication,
- scandal,
- scandalize,
- shame,
- slander,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- stain,
- statement,
- statement of facts,
- stigma,
- stigmatize,
- tear down,
- the big lie,
- traduce,
- traducement,
- travesty,
- untruth,
- vilification,
- vilify,
- whopper
- scandal
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- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
- a disgraceful event related words >
- abomination,
- abuse,
- asperse,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- bad,
- badge of infamy,
- belittlement,
- bitchiness,
- black mark,
- black spot,
- blemish,
- burning shame,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- calumniate,
- calumniation,
- calumny,
- cattiness,
- character assassination,
- damage,
- defamation,
- defame,
- defilement,
- degradation,
- denigrate,
- depreciation,
- desecration,
- dirt,
- dirty shame,
- discredit,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparagement,
- disrepute,
- embarrassment,
- error,
- evil,
- gossip column,
- humiliation,
- ignominy,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- juicy morsel,
- knavery,
- libel,
- low-down dirty shame,
- malicious gossip,
- obliquity,
- obloquy,
- outrage,
- peccancy,
- pity,
- profanation,
- reproach,
- reprobacy,
- sacrilege,
- scandalize,
- scandalmongering,
- shame,
- sin,
- slander,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- spot,
- stigma,
- taint,
- tale,
- terrible thing,
- tidbit,
- traducement,
- villainy,
- violation,
- whispering campaign,
- wrong
- humiliation
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- depriving one of self-esteem
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
- state of disgrace or loss of self-respect related words >
- abasement,
- affront,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- awkwardness,
- belittlement,
- breaking,
- brickbat,
- burning shame,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- comedown,
- conquering,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- crushing,
- cut,
- cut direct,
- debasement,
- deflation,
- degradation,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- despite,
- detraction,
- dirty shame,
- disconcertedness,
- discredit,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparagement,
- disregard,
- domestication,
- dump,
- embarrassment,
- enormity,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gentling,
- gibe,
- hangdog look,
- humbled pride,
- humbling,
- ignominy,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- letdown,
- low-down dirty shame,
- mock,
- mockery,
- mortification,
- obloquy,
- offense,
- outrage,
- put-down,
- quelling,
- rebuff,
- reduction,
- reproach,
- repulse,
- scandal,
- scoff,
- scurrility,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-diminishment,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shaming,
- slight,
- sneer,
- sniff,
- snort,
- snub,
- spurn,
- spurning,
- subdual,
- suppression,
- taming,
- taunt,
- the cold shoulder,
- the go-by,
- treading down,
- uncomplimentary remark
- disparagement
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- the act of speaking contemptuously of
- a communication that belittles somebody or something related words >
- airs,
- animadversion,
- arrogance,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- attrition,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- belittlement,
- bend sinister,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blot,
- blur,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- calumny,
- censure,
- champain,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- defamation,
- denigration,
- depletion,
- deprecation,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- despisal,
- despite,
- detraction,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discommendation,
- discourtesy,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disesteem,
- dishonor,
- dispraise,
- disrespect,
- disrespectfulness,
- disvaluation,
- exclusiveness,
- extraction,
- hauteur,
- impairment,
- impudence,
- imputation,
- insolence,
- insult,
- irreverence,
- lack of respect,
- lessening,
- mark of Cain,
- minimization,
- misestimation,
- misprision,
- misprizal,
- misprizing,
- onus,
- pillorying,
- point champain,
- reduction,
- reflection,
- remission,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- ridicule,
- scandal,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- slander,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smudge,
- smutch,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- stricture,
- superciliousness,
- taint,
- tale,
- tarnish,
- toploftiness,
- truncation,
- underestimate,
- underestimation,
- underrating,
- underreckoning,
- undervaluation
- account,
- aggregate,
- all,
- amount,
- anecdotage,
- anecdote,
- back-fence gossip,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- be-all and end-all,
- belittlement,
- blague,
- box score,
- calumny,
- canard,
- cast,
- chitchat,
- chronicle,
- cock-and-bull story,
- count,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- difference,
- disparagement,
- entirety,
- enumerate,
- epic,
- epos,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- ghost story,
- gossip,
- gossiping,
- gossipmongering,
- gossipry,
- groundless rumor,
- half-truth,
- history,
- idle talk,
- legal fiction,
- libel,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- misrepresentation,
- myth,
- narration,
- narrative,
- newsmongering,
- number,
- numerate,
- piece of gossip,
- pious fiction,
- prevarication,
- product,
- quantity,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- record,
- report,
- rumor,
- saga,
- scandal,
- score,
- scuttlebutt,
- slander,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- sum,
- sum total,
- summation,
- talebearing,
- taletelling,
- talk,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- tally,
- taradiddle,
- tattle,
- tell,
- the bottom line,
- the story,
- the whole story,
- tittle-tattle,
- total,
- totality,
- tote,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- white lie,
- whole,
- x number,
- yam,
- yarn
- dishonor
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- lacking honor or integrity
- a state of shame or disgrace; "he was resigned to a life of dishonor"
- refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts"
- bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" related words >
- abase,
- abuse,
- affront,
- aspersion,
- bad character,
- bad debt,
- bad name,
- bad odor,
- bad report,
- bad reputation,
- bad repute,
- belittlement,
- black mark,
- blemish,
- blot,
- bring into discredit,
- bring low,
- bring shame upon,
- call names,
- cast reproach upon,
- commit sacrilege,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defamation,
- default,
- defection,
- defile,
- deflower,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- delinquence,
- delinquency,
- denigration,
- deplume,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- desecrate,
- detraction,
- deviousness,
- disallow,
- disapprobation,
- discourtesy,
- discredit,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgrace,
- dishonesty,
- dishonoring,
- disoblige,
- disparagement,
- displume,
- disrepute,
- disrespect,
- disrespectfulness,
- dump on,
- evasiveness,
- evil repute,
- feloniousness,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gibe at,
- give offense to,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- hurl a brickbat,
- ignominy,
- ill fame,
- ill repute,
- ill-favor,
- improbity,
- impudence,
- impute shame to,
- indignity,
- indirection,
- infamy,
- injure,
- insolence,
- insult,
- irreverence,
- jeer at,
- jibe at,
- lack of respect,
- levant,
- libel,
- mock,
- mortify,
- nondischarge of debts,
- nonpayment,
- nonremittal,
- not pay,
- obloquy,
- odium,
- offend,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- pillory,
- poor reputation,
- profane,
- protest,
- protested bill,
- public dishonor,
- put down,
- put to shame,
- rape,
- ravish,
- reflect discredit upon,
- refuse to pay,
- reproach,
- repudiate,
- repudiation,
- ridicule,
- scoff at,
- seduce,
- shadiness,
- shady reputation,
- shame,
- shiftiness,
- slander,
- slight,
- slipperiness,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- stop payment,
- taunt,
- treat with indignity,
- trickiness,
- uncollectible,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unfrock,
- unsavoriness,
- unsavory reputation,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- welsh
- depreciation
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- a decrease in price or value; "depreciation of the dollar against the yen"
- decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abridgment,
- agio,
- alleviation,
- allowance,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- bank discount,
- belittlement,
- belittling,
- break,
- breakage,
- calumny,
- cash discount,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- cheapening,
- comedown,
- concession,
- consumption,
- contempt,
- contraction,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- dampening,
- damping,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decrial,
- deduction,
- defamation,
- deflation,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- denigration,
- depletion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- deprecation,
- depression,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- detraction,
- devaluation,
- devolution,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disapproval,
- discommendation,
- discount,
- discrediting,
- disgrace,
- disparagement,
- dispraise,
- dissipation,
- disvaluation,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drain,
- drawback,
- drop,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- erosion,
- evaporation,
- exhaustion,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fade-out,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- faint praise,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- indignity,
- involution,
- kickback,
- knocking,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- leakage,
- lessening,
- letup,
- loss of tone,
- lowering,
- lukewarm support,
- markdown,
- miniaturization,
- minimization,
- minimizing,
- misestimation,
- misprision,
- misprizal,
- misprizing,
- mitigation,
- nose dive,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- percentage,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- premium,
- price cut,
- price fall,
- price reduction,
- price-cut,
- putting down,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reduction,
- refund,
- regression,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- ridicule,
- rollback,
- sag,
- sagging,
- salvage,
- scaling down,
- scandal,
- setoff,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- simplicity,
- slander,
- slash,
- slighting,
- slippage,
- slump,
- sour grapes,
- subtraction,
- tale,
- tare,
- time discount,
- trade discount,
- tret,
- truncation,
- underestimate,
- underestimation,
- underrating,
- underreckoning,
- underselling,
- undervaluation,
- using,
- using up,
- wane,
- wastage,
- waste,
- weakening,
- wearing,
- wearing away,
- write-off
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