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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. Antonym: believe.

noun

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

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"Discredit" Quotes from Famous Books

... brought him into contact with a new set of acquaintances, conscious of political destinies. They were amiable, hard young men, almost affectedly unaffected; they breakfasted before dawn to get in a day's hunting, and they saw to it that Benham's manifest determination not to discredit himself did not lead to his breaking his neck. Their bodies were beautifully tempered, and their minds were as flabby as Prothero's body. Among them were such men as Lord Breeze and Peter Westerton, and that current set of Corinthians who supposed themselves to be resuscitating ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... but he was a degraded scoundrel, after all. He was educated and brought up without regard to expense, but he always displayed low tastes, and, had he lived, would have brought discredit on the name he bore. He was a thorn in the side of the Duke and Duchess, and I believe that they felt great relief when he died of brain fever, brought on by a drunken debauch. His parents, or those whom he supposed to be such, were present at his death-bed, for they had learned ...

— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau

... at his principal with the air of a man profoundly puzzled, and Rawdon felt with a kind of rage that his prey was escaping him. He did not believe a word of the story, and yet, how discredit ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Modern critical methods were undreamed of in the days of our hagiographer, who wrote, moreover, for edification only in a credulous age. Most of the historical documents of the period are in a greater or less degree uncritical but that does not discredit their testimony however much it may confuse their editors. It can be urged moreover that two mutually incompatible genealogies of the saint are given. The genealogy given by MacFirbisigh seems in fact to disagree in almost every ...

— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous

... Committee. While in their hands he seemed filled with astonishment at his own achievements, and such spontaneous expressions as naturally flowed from his heart thrilled and amazed his new found friends, and abundant satisfaction was afforded, that Samuel Washington Johnson would do no discredit to his fugitive comrades in Canada. So the Committee gladly aided ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

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