Crossword clues for discredit
discredit
- Drag through the mud
- Impugn
- The state of being held in low esteem
- Keeping secrets, policeman covers up last note to ruin someone's reputation
- Stain round object coloured it
- Shame! Say it's wrong
- Reputational damage in party, mostly concerning Democrat appeal
- Ill-repute is harboured by Washington Republican? Correct
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discredit \Dis*cred"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Discrediting.] [Cf. F. discr['e]diter.]
To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
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To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible.
--Strype.2. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went.
--Sir H. Wotton.
Discredit \Dis*cred"it\, n. [Cf. F. discr['e]dit.]
The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
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Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.
--Rogers.Syn: Disesteem; disrepute; dishonor; disgrace; ignominy; scandal; disbelief; distrust.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved. 2 A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach. vb. (context transitive English) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
WordNet
n. the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute" [syn: disrepute] [ant: repute]
v. cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"
damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits the politicians" [syn: disgrace]
reject as false; refuse to accept [syn: disbelieve] [ant: believe]
Usage examples of "discredit".
The August aardwolf said that the UN bombing was part of a strategy by a new and bold insurgency to discredit and isolate the U.
August aardwolf said that the UN bombing was part of a strategy by a new and bold insurgency to discredit and isolate the U.
The opposition will be trying to force a wedge between us and the Bangkok government, maybe try to discredit us.
With Waycroft as their leader, at his own price and terms, they have tried to discredit Beaverwood and mark its occupants as homicidal maniacs.
One of these was revived some years later when Bismarck wished to discredit him, and Bismarckian journals accused him of having betrayed to Marshal Bazaine military secrets which he discovered in Hesse.
For obvious reasons Hive philosophers and Establishment Reality-Definers tend to discredit the Pleasure-Aesthetic Castes and the contributions they make to the species.
Until the mindless theory of Charles Darwinian natural selection was finally discredited, and a mindful theory of evolution was substituted in its place, neither Mr.
Tracing the views of Christians as to the nature of the soul, and the life to come in heaven or hell, back to the rude conceptions of the naked savages who fashioned their idea of the ghost from the shadow or the reflection of the man, which was a picture or representative of him, yet without matter, and from the phenomena of dreams, in which they supposed the spirit of the man left him and went through the adventures of the dream and returned ere he awoke it has been asserted that every form of later faith, however refined and improved in details, yet really resting on such puerile fancies, such incompetent and absurd beginnings, is thereby discredited and must be rejected.
I confidently expect within a few days to be able to dismiss to their homes the great majority of the Volunteers, and my firm conviction is, that this disturbance will produce beneficial effects by discrediting Fenian enterprises, exhibiting the futility of any attempt at invasion of the Province, and showing the absence of all disaffection amongst any portion of the people of Canada.
Malamud thought he was looking for someone else and still spotted Ivan Grozny, the identification would be very hard to discredit in court.
Socialism is totally discredited, says Kapor, fresh back from the Eastern Bloc.
Senor Archbishop Turpin, it is a great discredit to those of us called the Twelve Peers to do nothing more and allow the courtier knights victory in this tourney, when we, the knights who seek adventures, have won glory on the three previous days.
The movement was discredited by the fact that all the anti-Semites, from the government to the Naras, favoured emigration to Palestine.
Chapter II THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRAND IT is not so easy to tell why discredit should be cast upon a man because of something that his grandfather may have done amiss, but the world, which is never overnice in its discrimination as to where to lay the blame, is often pleased to make the innocent suffer in the place of the guilty.
Apparently, Hrdlicka believed his lengthy refutation of the finds from the Puelchean formation was sufficient to discredit the finds in the far older Montehermosan formation at the same site.