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: --
I sympathize with the detractors, sharing their dislike for commodity culture and their revulsion at the transformation of aesthetics into a brand or fad.
This association is evident in the works of spiritualism's supporters no less than those of its detractors.
In this way, he defended the practice and its techniques against its detractors.
It is inevitable that a survey of this sort will have its detractors.
As this book clearly shows sequence stratigraphic theory, despite all its detractors, continues to be a very powerful tool.
He comes over as much more sophisticated than his detractors at the time and since would have had us believe.
But positivists and their detractors have often lumped together three different questions about the relationship between law and morality: normativity (or authority), validity, and content.
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.