What's the difference between detractor and detractory?

Detractor


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  • (1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
  • (2) Screening has many detractors, especially in the treatment camp.
  • (3) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
  • (4) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
  • (5) Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry have warned detractors that they would be unable to reimpose a multinational trade embargo if congress rejects the plans .
  • (6) His many detractors said that Peres simply had no choice.
  • (7) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
  • (8) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (9) The eminent historian Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has jumped to Gove's defence, attacking the "pomposity" of the curriculum's detractors.
  • (10) After suggesting that the voting for Forbes had been fixed by "a small group of detractors" casting multiple votes, he continued: "Glenfiddich's choice of Michael Forbes, as Top Scot, will go down as one of the great jokes ever played on the Scottish people and is a terrible embarrassment to Scotland."
  • (11) He was protected by the media, his detractors complained, but protection was certainly not offered from the club.
  • (12) His detractors, many in his own party, say he will turn Britain’s main opposition party into a political pressure group at best , with no hope of regaining office.
  • (13) While there is good scientific evidence that meditating twice a day can reduce stress and lower blood pressure, the maharishi's detractors say that his claims that it can also cure cancer and prolong lifespans are unproven.
  • (14) The eccentric, gonzo-ish path that Vice has chosen to pursue instead has itself come in for sharp criticism from detractors among those he belittles as football-chasers.
  • (15) The company was employed in September 2015 by one of Trump’s Republican detractors to look into his dealings.
  • (16) The Pythons were silly and surreal, and any style of humour so quirkily individual that it spawns its own adjective will have its detractors.
  • (17) While Osborne claimed "access to higher education is a basic tenet of economic success in the global race", his detractors countered that the system would collapse under the weight of its own ambition.
  • (18) John Smith As the chief executive of BBC Worldwide, he is frequently accused of behaving too commercially by the BBC's detractors.
  • (19) Facing threats of boycotts and cancellations across a range of industries Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, vetoed a bill sponsored by fellow Republicans that detractors said would have facilitated discrimination against gays in the name of defending religious freedom.
  • (20) Where fans see a great artist drawn to extremes of ecstasy and anguish, detractors see an old-fashioned misogynist sporting a voguish arthouse cap.

Detractory


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  • (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.

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