Word: detract
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Kakasa said he was "very shocked" to learn of Malcolm's death. "The fact that Malcolm was what he was, and that he was allowed to be, spoke well, I think for the United States. But the fact that he was killed in this way will detract from that credit...
...befits the designer who is known as the idea man of the Paris collections, Courrèges came through with eye-poppers aplenty-flesh-colored leotards beneath embroidered net slacks, ten-gallon hats, skirts cut three inches above the knee-gimmicky, but none of them too gimmicky to detract from an integral purity of line and shape...
Dietz, who filed the appeal, claims that the bridge, will detract from the street's appearance by blocking air and light. Visibly angry at Monday's meeting, Dietz said, "I will not give up the fight until I think some right is done...
...idea for a pedestrian mall may have come from Sheldon Dietz '41 who has persistently fought the Coop's new annex on the grounds that present plans would detract from Palmer St.'s aesthetic qualities...
...sought by our foreign policy, the purpose for which we carry on relations with foreign states, is to preserve and foster an environment in which free societies may exist and flourish. Our policies and actions must be tested by whatever they contribute to or detract from achievement of this...