A man who is of a detracting spirit, will misconstrue the most innocent words that can be put together.
A man who is of a detracting spirit will misconstrue the most innocent words that can be put together.
We have wished to give New England her due, without detracting any thing from what is due to any other section of the Union.
These markets are long masses of palm-leaf huts, blackened in the sun and wind, of a mean and squalid appearance, detracting greatly from the appearance of the gates.
Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say!
In short, she made just the number of errors sufficient to permit her to be a writer of genius without detracting from her air of distinguished elegance, or from the obligations and the quality of her birth.
In measure as the century advanced it began to be recognised that a nobleman could "study" without detracting from his noble dignity.
We might easily discover that basenese we are so subiect to in detracting from what al others do'es but ourselves in that groundless censur of many things in this harangue which our Alex'r had wt another of his partizans.
From the above remarks I would not have it supposed that I am desirous of detracting from the well-merited praise to which the Montenegrins are entitled for their long and successful resistance to the Turkish arms.
This bright idea was not, however, without its share of detracting reflections, for what became of all that personal heroism on which he reposed such hope, if the danger were to be encountered by deputy?
With great proportions and ample verge, the detracting elements are hidden from view.
You 'd say that with all these detracting influences he was a man of consummate social tact, refined manners, and at least possessing the outward signs of good breeding.
If the things just mentioned are defects they are of little moment and add to the quaintness of the verses without detracting from their force.
One might consider them as sacred and secular and under the former recognize the psalms, which our poets have many times rendered into metrical form, not infrequently detracting from the sublimity of the originals.
Lascivious conversation combines impurity and spiritual damage to another, and is more harmful than the non-carnal sin of detracting that other and causing him some temporal injury.
For the lands assigned to maintaine the army, are euer certain, annexed to this office without improuing, or detracting one foot.
If he had seen anything good or spirited in me, he could not have helped detracting from me.
A gang of snobbesses were detracting from--somebody.
He storms and rages at his detracting pupils; but ends with roars of laughter at their impudence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detracting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
