Word Meanings - DETRACTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a detracting manner.

Related words: (words related to DETRACTINGLY)

• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.
• DETRACTINGLY
  In a detracting manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• DETRACTIOUS
  Containing detraction; detractory. Johnson.
• DETRACTER
  One who detracts; a detractor. Other detracters and malicious writers. Sir T. North.
• DETRACTOR
  One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay. Syn. -- Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• DETRACTORY
  Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.
• DETRACT
  1. To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton. 2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton. Syn. -- To derogate; decry; disparage;
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• DETRACTRESS
  A female detractor. Addison.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• DETRACTION
  1. A taking away or withdrawing. The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon. 2. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another,
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.