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detraction

sin of revealing another person's real faults to a third person without a valid reason (thereby lessening the reputation of that person) according to Roman Catholic theology

tattling

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St. Philip Neri compared detraction to scattering feathers in the wind (English)

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Catholic Church

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calumny

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