Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.
One who disparages or belittles the worth of something.
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Examples for "detractor "
Examples for "detractor "
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 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.
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.
A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.
Mythical creature in Welsh, Cornish and Devon folklore.
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.
6 The door was white, the handle and knocker were of massive silver.
7 The knocker sounded, and Mr Amos hastened to admit the first comers.
8 Reaching up to the shining old brass knocker she banged it sharply.
9 Just before raising the knocker he had been singing cheerfully to himself.
10 That old pin-head is the worst knocker that ever queered a camp.
11 The house inhabited by the clerk had neither bell, knocker , nor porter.
12 Before Sophie could grasp the knocker , the door swung open from within.
13 A moment afterward the huge knocker was heard to sound, and Mrs.
14 Again the knocker was raised and lowered, a little louder than before.
15 The door opened with a latch, and often had also a knocker .
16 How wonderful that you should have been able to reach my knocker .
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