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Examples of detract
detract
It may sound insignificant, but it will detract from the enjoyment of your food.
From the freep.com
Doesn't it detract from the contemplative and meditative nature of spirituality?
From the sltrib.com
Well, again, this amendment rightly does nothing to detract from that objective.
From the washingtonpost.com
The colours are coherent and complementary, and do not detract from the content.
From the en.wikipedia.org
On the flip side, not making time for friends can really detract from happiness.
From the happiness-project.com
And the wired mouse and keyboard kind of detract from the whole all-in-one idea.
From the techcrunch.com
Yet this is not enough to detract from what is an unashamedly feelgood night out.
From the dailytelegraph.com.au
What that actually does, though, is detract from what they are trying to achieve.
From the canberratimes.com.au
This did not detract from the game and another Colborne penalty narrowed the gap.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
- Take away: take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"
- (detraction) a petty disparagement
- (detraction) 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"
- Detraction is defined, primarily in Roman Catholic theology, as the sin of revealing previously unknown faults or sins of another person to a third person. This differs from the sin of calumny, which is lying about faults or sins that a person doesn't really have. ...
- To take away; to withdraw or remove; To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry
- (Detraction) Disclosure of another's faults and sins, without an objectively valid reason, to persons who did not know about them, thus causing unjust injury to that person's reputation.
- (detraction () 123) self-accusation
