Anagrams of: DETRACTIONS

• a person skilled in telling anecdotes

• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

• a conceptual separation or distinction

• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

• to show differences when compared; be different

• a petty disparagement

• the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)

• putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

• the act of putting something in writing

• a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

• a ruler who is unconstrained by law

• a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

• a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

• a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium