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detractor

/dih-trak-ter/US // dɪˈtræk tər //

排斥者,旁观者,反对者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who tries to take away from the quality, value, or reputation of someone or something; critic: There were strong reactions after the film was screened in Israel, with the public divided between detractors and admirers.

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Examples

  • According to Assange’s supporters—and many of his detractors, too—his case marks an important moment in the fight for press freedom.

  • Predictably, the sport's detractors have been quick to seize on this as evidence that electricity and racing cars just don't go together.

  • I have always been able to just brush that off because for every person who has been a detractor in that sense, there has always been somebody who has supported me.

  • That position has earned him detractors among climate activist groups.

  • The piece of legislation had overcome a yearlong delay, appeased initial detractors — including the development lobby — and passed the legislature by wide margins before flaming out at the eleventh hour on the governor’s desk.

  • “Only a Romney would see this as a photo op,” another detractor tweeted.

  • Now, with the "kiss seen ‘round the world," Stewart has given her legions of snarky detractor’s actual ammunition.

  • And to simply characterize Koch as a Democratic detractor, and a Republican right-winger, would be, well, simplistic.

  • Hayworth has Rush Limbaugh—not as an endorser of his candidacy, at least not yet, but as a longtime McCain detractor.

  • But Chernin has at least one outspoken detractor—the former head of the Fox studio, Bill Mechanic.

  • And if this be not enough, I am made a detractor from my predecessors, whom I confess to have been my masters in the art.

  • Strabo appears neither as detractor nor as partisan, but as one who earnestly desires the truth.

  • Cap'n Sproul whirled on the ancient detractor, whiskers bristling angrily.

  • The constable backed away a few steps and stared at this amazing detractor.

  • Brother Paul's answer to indorser and detractor alike was to buy up more radiotime.