Detracting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETRACTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DETRACT, to take away
• diminish the worth or value of (a quality or achievement)
• take away (a specified amount) from the worth or value of a quality or achievement

Words related to DETRACTING

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Words that contain DETRACTING

detractings15 detractingly19

How to use DETRACTING in a sentence

• He lived in an atmosphere so infinitely above small and envious and detracting people that he was practically independent of human sympathies.
• Nothing that we have said must be considered as detracting from Mr.
• I am afraid that I may be detracting from the glory of some most eminent men.
• Not satisfied with detracting from the merits of Mr.
• Yet in this frugality of your praises there are some things which I cannot omit without detracting from your character.
• Neither will ye be capable of detracting from the loftiness of Our state.
• At others it was scrubby, thereby detracting from its value for some time to come.
• Those who, like Sylvia, have red hair, are mostly freckled and rosy, which, so far from detracting from their beauty, rather adds to their charms.
• A good observing-chair is also a matter of some importance, the least constraint or awkwardness of position detracting considerably from the power of distinct vision.
• For by detracting, and fault-finding, and evil-reporting on the good, the world greatly helps to perfect them.
• It may be admitted, without materially detracting from his merit, that in some of them the foreign models from which they were in a measure fashioned shimmer through.
• Until, therefore, I become surer of neither invading the provinces of others, nor of detracting from their wisdom, let those ill-written fancies still lie dormant in my desk.
• Instead of detracting from, they add to the interest of a carefully woven plot.
• And this, instead of detracting from its legislative power, is one of the modes of exercising that power.
• He whose hair is of a reddish complexion, is for the most part, if not always, proud, deceitful, detracting and full of envy.
• All the pomp and glory of earthly preparation would have been but tawdry tinsel, detracting from the glorious things that were shortly to follow.
• Gresham gazed upon her with unfeigned admiration, and thought that the years, instead of detracting from, had only intensified, her loveliness.
• Howbeit, after some detracting of time, she brought him a few eggs, willing him to return to her, if his ship were gone when he came.
• We are not detracting from the glory of God when we say that Christ saves us.
• This may be said without in the least detracting from his merits as a discoverer.

Similar words containing TRACT without suffix ing and without prefix de

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