0 someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly:
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for leadership.
1 a person who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly:
So the more great mystics we know little about, the weaker is the detractor's case.
Clearly, my review should stand or fall on its merits, not some alleged rule invented by my two detractors.
He sadly admitted that scientists were at least as bad as poets in the "envenomed hatred" with which they repaid their detractors.
Despite its current political popularity, the bidding process has many detractors.
Many detractors blame that aid for encouraging dictatorship and undermining democracy.
It is time detractors of modernism did the same.
The danseur's supposed sexuality and class seemed wrong and made his detractors extremely uncomfortable, particularly when he danced in the noble style.
If this is taken into account, then what the detractors say against those who produce a necessary from these premises turns out to be true.
