One who disparages or belittles the worth of something.
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Examples for "knocker "
Examples for "knocker "
1 He used the tarnished brass knocker , got no answer, and rapped again.
2 She managed to reach the front door and to lift the knocker .
3 Then we must fasten up the knocker and take off the bell.
4 This remark was a knocker ; I could not say anything to that.
5 At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
1 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people.
2 Alone, of all the vegetables, stood spinach, with not a single detractor .
3 To the slight of the detractor or aspersion of the defamer:
4 Later on, however, he inquired concerning the identity of this detractor .
5 Detractors say the law has hurt smaller banks and hamstrung the economy.
1 He poses, to be sure, as a depreciator of woman.
2 Thirdly, two scraps from letters from Stevenson to Henley, to show that the latter was not always a depreciator of R. L. Stevenson's work:
3 The priest himself paid no attention either to his eulogists or his depreciators .
4 The mistake his depreciators make, however, is in thinking that his story ends here.
5 None of the depreciators of the Chinaman, however, have yet impeached him of a fondness for intoxicating liquors.
1 Cato himself, who was certainly no disparager of his own merits, says that a great many were killed, but he specifies no number.
2 The two persons most active in "getting up" this testimonial were, nominally, Colonel Poyntz-intruth, his wife-andmy old disparager , Mr. Vigors!
3 The disparagers of culture make its motive curiosity; sometimes, indeed, they make its motive mere exclusiveness and vanity.
4 This may be one reason why Cooper has more admirers, or at least fewer disparagers , abroad than at home.
5 "Smart actin's better than smart lookin'," Drew answered the disparagers now.
6 "Even you," said Barbara, as though I were a sort of Schopenhauer, a professional disparager of her sex-"evenyou have a high opinion of Mrs.
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