detraction

There is one heavy detraction, however, from the excellence of the Avignonese climate.

Bunglers will not mend matters by blackening the great canvases they can't paint on, nor the impotent become males by detraction.

It is very absurd to consider criticism that is not always favourable, detraction.

There was not a word of detraction about any one—nothing to jar on one's impression of him as a refined, noble-hearted man.

A favorite method of detraction is illustrated by the familiar story (p. 266) of Columbus's egg.