'detractors' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to people who criticize or speak negatively about someone or something. Example: Despite all her hard work and dedication, the popular singer still had her detractors who constantly accused her of lip-syncing during her concerts.
At Westminster the loyalists look at the likes of Nadine Dorries, "Mad Nad" to her detractors, and shake their heads in despair.
After the final whistle the odd supporter used social media to allege that Carver – whose suddenly relegation-threatened side are now only five points above the bottom three and visit renascent Leicester on Saturday – had sworn at his detractors, before issuing an invitation "outside" for a fight.
Its detractors claim that the SDLP has a bad case of the "three M's" - too male, too middle class and too middle of the road - which should have been arrested long before Sinn Féin began to steal some of its thunder.
Memo to Morgan detractors: you can't keep the bouncing boy down, here, there or anywhere.
I know the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, pretty well and, despite the fact that he has many detractors, I retain a respect for him that several of my friends and colleagues do not share.
And I say to my detractors, people are not voting for me because I'm a Muslim or because I might be a successful lawyer, it's because I'm clear in my policies and I'm going to do my damned best to deliver those policies.
There is a vital role for men to play in this battle, and it isn't as detractors or naysayers, but as allies, agents of change and beneficiaries.
Farage's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to win South Thanet became particularly bitter and divisive at some points, with Ukip's supporters and detractors claiming to have been subject to intimidation and dirty tactics.
According to Feehily, the laws of the Westlife ballad were a source of fond amusement to the band as much as to their detractors.
Unfortunately, the massive stink kicked up by Selma's selectively-informed detractors may have helped fulfil Califano's exhortation that "the movie should be ruled out this Christmas and during the ensuing awards season".
For within a handful of years, Stravinsky was pursuing an ironic, detached and elegant neoclassical aesthetic, which initially bewildered his fans as much as his detractors.
