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Discredited   /dɪskrˈɛdɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Discredit  v. t.  (past & past part. discredited; pres. part. discrediting)  
1.
To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
2.
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."
3.
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."


adjective
discredited  adj.  
1.
Being brought into disrepute; as, a discredited politician.
Synonyms: damaged.
2.
Suffering shame.
Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed.
3.
Having been shown to be incorrect; as, a discredited theory or policy.





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"Discredited" Quotes from Famous Books



... offered the leadership of the attack on Minorca (April 1756), and that he declined, saying, 'The English will do me justice, if they think fit, but I will no longer serve as a mere scarecrow' (epouvantail). In January 1756, however, Knyphausen, writing to Frederick from Paris, discredited the idea that France meant ...
— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang
... given. The most ambitious moment of her artist-life seemed to have arrived at last. If she attained success, the crown was set on all the previous triumphs of her art; if failure were the issue, she would return to America discredited, if not disgraced, as an actress. The very crisis of her stage-life had come now in earnest. It found her despondent, almost despairing; at the last moment she was ready to draw back. She had then ...
— Mary Anderson • J. M. Farrar
... adopted by the syndicalists a quarter of a century later. Nevertheless, one cannot escape the thought that Bakounin's advocacy of a purely economic struggle was only a last desperate effort on his part to discover some method of action, aside from his now discredited riots and insurrections, that could serve as an effective substitute for political action. In reality, Bakounin found himself in a vicious circle. Again and again he tried to find his way out, but invariably he returned ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
... of natives in their vivid colours, which seem so atune with all that has to do with love, mattered not at all; but Leonie turned and pointed casually to the Devil, enjoying his matutinal bath, as the boy flung himself from the discredited polo pony on which he had ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... curse of war came home to roost. Henry V's abler but less brilliant brother, Bedford, stemmed till his death the rising tide of English faction and French patriotism. Then the expulsion of the English from France began, and a long tale of failure discredited the government. The nation had spirit enough to resent defeat, but not the means to avoid it; and strife between the peace party and the war party in the government resolved itself into a faction ...
— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard


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