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/dɪskrˈɛdət/ Listen

Discredit

verb

(past & past part. discredited; pres. part. discrediting)

Cause to be distrusted or disbelieved.

Damage the reputation of. Synonym: disgrace.

Reject as false; refuse to accept. Synonym: disbelieve.

noun

The state of being held in low esteem. Synonym: disrepute. "Because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"

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... Chaos a little nearer to the form of Cosmos; possessed, in fact, of loyalties to Cosmos, that is to say, of authentic virtues in the savage state, such as have been needed in all societies at their incipience in this world; a kind of "virtues" hugely in discredit at present, but not unlikely to be needed again, to the astonishment of careless persons, before ...

— Early Kings of Norway • Thomas Carlyle

... watching him, trying to read his thoughts. He saw the tears glistening on Oliver's lashes, but he misunderstood the cause. Only the practical side of the situation appealed to the Vermonter at the moment. These New York men had cast discredit on his endorsement of Richard's priority in the invention and had tried to ignore them both. Now he held them tight in his grasp. Horn ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

... in a different way from anything that is being attempted at present. Perhaps as approaching my concept I may cite Dostoyevsky. Yet that exorable Russian is less an elevated realist than an evangelic socialist. In France right now the purely corporal recipe has brought upon itself such discredit that two clans have arisen: the liberal, which prunes naturalism of all its boldness of subject matter and diction in order to fit it for the drawing-room, and the decadent, which gets completely off the ground and raves incoherently in a telegraphic patois intended to represent the ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... soothed the spot with an antiseptic, that such a darling little girl as she, would never hold up against him anything he had done in pre-Kitty days. It would be unjust and unreasonable. Why, hang it all! who was there that was human who hadn't some little—or big—scrape to his discredit in his bachelor days? Unfortunately, fellows were not gifted with second sight to know how they would feel when they came to be properly in love with the only girl in the world for them! The sickening sense ...

— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

... was a reflection from her mother's wrath, whose mind had been filled up with rumours from the mills to the effect that her son had been "fired." Annette was wise enough and knew her brother well enough to discredit much that rumour brought to her ears, but she could not rid herself of the thought that a way might have been found to hold Tony about ...

— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

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