Noun

(wikipedia detraction)

The act of detracting something, or something detracted.

A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.

* (Isaac Barrow)

If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world

(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

Noun

(obloquies)

Abusive language.

* 1748 , David Hume, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

It is surprising, therefore, that this philosophy, which, in almost every instance, must be harmless and innocent, should be the subject of so much groundless reproach and obloquy .

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=21 citation , passage=“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.

Disgrace suffered from abusive language.

* 1825 , William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age ,

His name undoubtedly stands very high in the present age, and will in all probability go down to posterity with more or less of renown or obloquy .

*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .

*:It was comparatively easy for him to accept himself as the son of a terribly light Frenchwoman; there seemed a deeper obloquy even than that in his having for his other parent a nobleman altogether wanting in nobleness.