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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



... 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 ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... aristocracy, was invited to attend the salon of Mme. Necker and was told that the Marechale de Luxembourg, Mme. du Deffand, Mme. de Boufflers, and Mme. Marchais were frequenters, she said: "These four women are so discredited by manners, and the first two are so dangerous, that for thirty years they have been ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... in its value might be made, and thus the citizens of other States be injured, and animosities be kindled among the States themselves. The subjects of foreign powers might suffer from the same cause, and hence the Union be discredited and embroiled by the indiscretion of a single member. No one of these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the States to emit paper money, than to coin gold or silver. The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
... C[harles] J[ohnso]n; opera in the hands of Nicolino, Senesino, Handel, Buononcini and Attilio; the high-church idol, Sacheverel (d. 1724); the Craftsman (founded to attack Walpole) and the Occasional Writer (Bolingbroke's 4 pamphlets of Jan/Feb. 1727); and finally the discredited music printer, Cluer. Carey's relationship to opera was ambivalent, but in Mocking is Catching he strongly ...
— A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) • Anonymous
... the implacability which pursued him I may mention that among many leading Republicans to whom I related the incident most of them discredited his sincerity, one of them—a man of national importance—expressing the opinion that all along he was artfully playing for the nomination. This I do not believe. Perhaps he was never quite fixed in his mind. The presidency is a wondrous ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson


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