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Usage for detraction


As unlikely as it may be that that is his only detraction, there's a reason it emerges so glaringly that it obscures all other detractions. It is singularly significant, because it says much about the man and his philosophy. ...

... nor the highest rank, nor the greatest public services can protect him from the most infamous abuse and detraction, from personal insults, nor sometimes from real danger, arising from the insolent outrage of furious and disappointed monopolists. ...

... and doesn't add a thing. I also noticed when walking to the Carnegie Forum the other night that the first poem-engraved walkway rock has a bad grammatical error — a form of “lay” where it should be “lie.” Another detraction from a great attraction.

He described the text messages as an act of political assassination, adding that it was a detraction that cost him and the party victory at the polls. Ogbuewu made this known in Abakaliki while speaking with newsmen on the circumstances surrounding the ...

Ads don't bother me that much, and if some of them are good, then I think that'd be a plus rather than a detraction. I think I'd get the ads and save a few bucks. Ads don't bother me that much, and if some of them are good, then I think that'd be a ...


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