How To Use Discredit In A Sentence

I have said enough elsewhere to discredit such notions.
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
The third thing to her discredit was her living in the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants were known to be harsh and evil. Rahab: Midrash and Aggadah.
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Scientific discoveries have discredited religious belief.
The national broadcaster said Pahad "rebuked Washington for pursuing what he terms a discredited neo-conservative ideology". ANC Daily News Briefing
What a discredit to teachers he is.
The Government was discredited by the scandal.
The previous government is, by now, thoroughly discredited.
Discredited, Wovoka survived to die in the midst of the Great Depression.
Party officials have uncovered a conspiracy to discredit the prime minister.
The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary
He has tried to discredit the legality of parliament's inquiry, largely by concentrating on minor technical issues.
The further fact that all the great "a priori" metaphysical systems have been driven by their pure logic to discredit the "substantiality" of the soul, just as they have been driven to discredit the personality of God, ought, one would think, where "radical empiricism" is concerned, to be a still stronger piece of evidence on the soul's side. The Complex Vision
I never saw the broadcast, but it seemed to be a clear attempt to discredit me.
Whatever the identity of the plotter, and whomever they were batting for, the aim was simple and consistent: discredit the leadership, destabilise the leader, and stay out of the open.
Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a _frondeur_ discredited by both parties. The Testing of Diana Mallory
When you don't have the law and evidence you delay, disrupt, discredit and disorganize and create all forms of dissing ..... Franken Gets Big Win At Canvass Board
I want to refocus our curriculum to get rid of unnecessary extras and change our discredited exam system. Times, Sunday Times
The group's deep-dyed conservatism and hostility to social protest widely discredited it.
Reputations are rehabilitated or discredited.
It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
Can we expect to defeat terrorism without also discrediting the ideas and passions that underlie it?
On occasion, the Association has suffered discredit because of the actions or communications of chapters and conferences.
They spread disinformation in order to discredit politicians.
The newsweeklies can hardly get their biased pieces onto news-stands nowadays before they're discredited.
In the eyes of the public, almost anything is preferable to the current discredited system. Times, Sunday Times
As Ron mentions me extensively, and seems intent on discrediting the facts I have presented to your readers beforehand, please allow me to offer the following brief analysis.
The judge ruled that the defendant had no case to answer, as the evidence had been discredited.
It took about a decade of follow-on experiments to totally discredit the idea, Brossard says. Arsenic microbe answers a long way off
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
To win, the Left needs to discredit and defeat the very idea of capitalism, individualism, and personal freedom.
One reason may be that this form of cover is confused with widely discredited payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
There has been no such avowal, openly or otherwise, from the center-right or right to discredit theleft. The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
One reason may be that this form of cover is confused with widely discredited payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
It is a discredited value system and we, a selfish generation. Times, Sunday Times
lapstone," quite as Mr. Symons called a spherical object a "cannon ball": bent upon a discrediting incongruity: The Book of the Damned
About 30 per cent of the work was to discredit rivals. Times, Sunday Times
Cabarets, bean-counting contests, lotteries and callithumpian methods generally marked a period in Canada's recruiting history not pleasant to review, and which brought discredit upon the entire voluntary enlistment system as a permanent method of filling up armies. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
It is a discredit to the struggle of the people and a severe slap at the peaceful religion movement.
To accuse a member of Parliament of double-crossing is certainly discreditable.
+ The second sort (odium inimicitiae, or hostility) aims directly at the person, indulges a propensity to see what is evil and unlovable in him, feels a fierce satisfaction at anything tending to his discredit, and is keenly desirous that his lot may be an unmixedly hard one, either in general or in this or that specified way. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
His conviction was based on evidence, now discredited, that the fire was arson. Times, Sunday Times
It will come as no surprise to those who view Mr. Speaker Martin as incompetent, chippy and partial to the Government to discover that he is at the heart, yet again, of an effort to conceal from the public gaze something which appears to be unsatisfactory and discreditable about the conduct of the democratic affairs of the House and therefore the nation. Archive 2007-10-28
In fact, his election discredited the conciliar movement as being schismatic.
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
Yet by the early part of the 20th century, the idea had been discredited and seemed to have gone for good.
They discredited her good name with ugly gossip.
Their blood fathers were disgraced or dead, and if still present were discredited. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
That's surely as discredited now as a bouncing cheque. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, when he teamed up with Lenora Fulani, for instance, someone who's made a lot of anti-Semitic statements in the past, and their sort of political union was covered as just another news event rather than Pat Buchanan teams up with discredited whacko, which is much more accurate I think, yeah, that's incomplete news coverage. CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Are the Media Excluding Third Party Presidential Contenders? - June 24, 2000
Revolutionary pamphleteers denounced it as a resurrection of discredited feudal privileges.
But on the other hand, you can read books about the politics of the effort to discredit him. His cause was obviously unpleasant to the status quo.
That guy is a discredit to his family and relatives and friends.
Why have these discredited ways of thinking become so influential once again?
With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council. Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic
His reports about the war affairs in the Middle-East area have been discredited because it is realized that the reporter used false information.
Bad ideas get not only rebutted but discredited. Times, Sunday Times
They face possible suspension for discreditable conduct and bringing the Police Service into disrepute.
From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited. Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
One can discredit good ideas by associating them with bad ones.
The only way to oust the discredited leadership was by force, and so dissidents turned to groups of disaffected army officers for help. A Rock and a Hard Place
He was using the phrase "knowing nothing" in a broadly metaphysical sense, not as a way of discrediting science and scientific evidence, which he unequivocally supported. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The theory is rendered suspect by its reliance on now discredited sources.
Attacking Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, a favorite move of opponents of the New Deal, has consistently failed — even conservative Supreme Court Justice Anontin Scalia concedes the point — and the doctrine of "interposition," offered as justification to block civil-rights legislation, has been discredited for five decades. After the Fall
But there are also bogus philosophers who aim only at money and status, and bring her into discredit, and they drive her crazy.
Now, if the unknown James, Moses or Paul was to proclaim that greed is evil today in America he would likely hear his name denigrated on hate radio and hear something like "Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job. Thou Shall Covet
The discredited military junta handed the country back to the civilian politicians. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Finally, why is the media and conservatives repeating the discredited bird-brained charge that Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate? Easter Lemming Liberal News
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
The myth of philanthropy is quickly discredited by a realistic look at how older people lead their lives.
The CIA never debriefed him on anything of strategic importance and tried to kill the interest others might have by discrediting him behind his back.
Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
This provokes an artificial crisis which is used to discredit the unions by placing the blame directly on them for the crisis.
Only when such destruction threatens to derail the stock market and discredit the entire New Economy does the moral turpitude of top management become an issue.
In such a case, the person has failed to show benevolence for morally discreditable reasons, and so has behaved badly.
That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes. Là-bas
The American is now discredited, but the shadow of doping still hangs over his sport. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts.
This is why our honours system is discredited and the public has no confidence in it. Times, Sunday Times
Lawyers for the defense tried to discredit her testimony.
He closes his brief communication on the subject with the belief that it is quite possible for black hair to turn white in one night or even in a less time, although Hebra and Kaposi discredit sudden canities (Duhring). Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Darwin never said that there would be a transformation of one species into another in one generation, and no evolutionist now claims this it's known as "saltation", and is discreditied. Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin
These theories are now largely discredited among linguists.
This POTUS is a sorry, no good for nothing lying sack of dung who should be discredited and ignored by EVERYONE. wow Bush suggests Obama wants 'appeasement' of terrorists
Such behavior can only reflect discredit upon you.
The idea that fracking could be a transition fuel is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
The debate about the relative strengths of Israeli forces and the invading Arab armies is just part of a pernicious campaign to discredit the very real existential security concerns that Israel has had to deal with, continuously, since the pre-independence days as a nascent state. Matthew Yglesias » Five State Solution
But surely that is now discredited? Times, Sunday Times
Way to profer the right's discredited 3 months ago meme. Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton
They cited uncertainty about the discredited allowance system for stopping their claims. Times, Sunday Times
Expect more attempts to discredit Forrest or distantiate themselves from the Wedge.
But courtesy and confirmation Kabuki prevented her from outright discrediting Roberts 'claim that the strike zone of the rulebook is the same as the strike zone of live play. Eric Liu: The Real Meaning of Balls and Strikes
The vote can be defined as a plebiscite against the existing regime, which has discredited itself and is hated by broad sections of the population.
Now discredited owing to regulators' reluctance to consider extreme enough outcomes. Times, Sunday Times
But it manifested the spirit by which they were animated; and, sir, is that spirit to be charged here, in this hall where we are sitting, as being 'discreditable' to our country's name? Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
The exploitation of sectarian disputes within a movement to discredit its members is time-honored and disreputable.
They made an effort to discredit the politician.
The idea of Boreal origins for both Gryphaea and Liostrea has to some extent been buttressed by discrediting or ignoring reports of occurrences of the genus in the Tethyan region in the Late Triassic.
She went further to discredit her former colleague by calling her a liar and a thief.
We then get legislation like this being served up, which is highly controversial, goes way beyond the original intent of the framers, and brings the whole proposition into discredit.
The teacher encouraged the children to behave well and not to be a discredit to the collective.
Furthermore, its response in the aftermath of the tragedy has been to gag or discredit the reputation of those who have attempted to speak out.
They have come up with many stratagems to discredit the finding but the latest one is a lulu.
Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas.
We have been hexed to devalue, negatively connote, discredit, caution against, inhibit, prohibit, and even become scared and fearful of allowing spirit to express itself through our whole body, mind, heart, and soul. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
That fitfulness discredited the party, and Besancenot has thrived on the upshot: disappointed blue-collar and public-sector workers. France Goes Postal
Now either repent from the error of your ways, or accept your position of a radical, extremist crank pushing far-out, discredited ideas. Matthew Yglesias » Bush As Crank
As the Hon Maurice Williamson said, we have all travelled around places where we have experienced unruly behaviour that is not only unbefitting to the person but brings discredit on other people.
Regulators are discredited, politicians are bickering and central banks are ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
The US government is expected to radically overhaul its discredited regulatory regime covering offshore operations, which had merely required companies to fill out uniform box-ticking safety audits. BP Gulf oil spill final report backs British safety model
Origins: A time-honored ploy in the political arena has been to discredit your opponents (and their ideas) by demonizing them, by associating them with ... well, demons.
By their selectivity of causes and their self-serving approach they have discredited themselves as genuine defenders of human rights and liberties.
Others again desire knowledge in order to acquire money or preferment by it; that too is a discreditable quest.
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
He discredits the idea that the innocent and law-abiding have nothing to worry about, arguing that privacy isn't simply an individual ‘quality of life’ issue.
The stupid behaviour of one pupil has brought discredit on the whole school.
He entertained, he insisted, a high regard for Mrs. Hill, and the only thing he knew to her discredit was the fact that she was Major Hill's wife. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
That is why this may be a good time to remind ourselves of some of the reasons imperialism fell into discredit in the first place.
Your failure reflects no discredit upon you—you did your best.
It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago, in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party, who was now under a cloud. Nineteen Eighty-Four
And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him.
The idea that fracking could be a transition fuel is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
The photos were deliberately taken to discredit the President.
Robert J. Perry, the main financier behind the effort to discredit Sen. John F. Kerry's military record, is the most prolific political donor in Texas. 1001
Therefore I will not doubt to note as a deficience, that they inquire not the perfect cures of many diseases, or extremities of diseases; but pronouncing them incurable do enact a law of neglect, and exempt ignorance from discredit. The Advancement of Learning
Think about a powerful government official leaking sensitive classified information to the press solely to discredit a critic of the government's policy.
Their paranoia is discrediting them, burning bridges, and hurting us.
As for the tea parties; the ideological incoherence is an outgrowth of the Republican Party’s ideological incoherence; the Republican Party’s inability to deliver on its mutually contradictory stated policy goals has discredited it, but not, apparently, the policy goals. Matthew Yglesias » How Popular is the Tea Party Movement?
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
In a meeting with high level U.S. officials in advance of the May 2010 election, Zenawi told them in plain words what he will do to his opposition if they try to "discredit the election": "If opposition groups resort to violence in an attempt to discredit the election, we will crush them with our full force; they will all vegetate like Birtukan Midekssa in jail forever. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship
It seems more like oligarchs looking to discredit their rivals perhaps. Times, Sunday Times
More recently, another life-and-death issue has emerged to discredit the notion that ‘free trade’ guides these institutions.
discreditable" for women to take any interest or any part in political affairs? The American Union Speaker
It is easy to say McClellan should have spoken up earlier while he was at the White House, but don't you think he would have been squashed in discredited back then? Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
But there are some examples here which suggest that obscure writing can be even more discreditable than that.
So a totally discredited source of energy is being imposed upon the country, simply because the government impetuously committed itself to it.
Taste is thereby an eminently social sense, an observation that implicitly further discredits its alleged privacy and indisputability. Tastes and Pleasures
The label "discredited Duke lacrosse accuser" has been attached to Crystal Mangum for nearly four years since North Carolina's top prosecutor determined she'd falsely accused three players of raping her at a party. The Seattle Times
She wanted the President to believe in her innocence, and that she loves the country and she would never do anything to harm or discredit the citizens..
Here I think the fault and discredit lies entirely with the academic institution.
Idealists discredit the veracity of consciousness as to our immediate knowledge of material phenomena, and, consequently, our _immediate knowledge of the existence of matter_. [ Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
You didn’t post a link, because you knew that it would aid in discrediting your stolen opinions. Think Progress » Media Matters debunks UCLA study
Then, they will seize upon some anomaly to try to discredit the entire work.
Since making that complaint it seems that there has been, on the information I have, a concerted effort to discredit her in many, many ways.
His attempt to discredit his opponent boomeranged when he was charged with libel.
If planning is so inefficient, and discredited in economic theory, why does it persist? Times, Sunday Times
The almighty trade dollar shouldn't hush up public debate on this - to treat the welfare of animals so carelessly is a discredit to us all.
The idea that the sun goes round the earth has long been discredited.
This newspaper story discredits the politicians
It was not defensive, but a calculated attempt to discredit Lloyd George.
I read line after line of erroneous reporting, with the sole intention of discrediting a political candidate.
In the next two decades, there will take place a total discrediting of these monstrous blights on the economic stability and prosperity of our civilization.
Conference should expel those individuals who call themselves the Marxist Tendency within the ANC 4 and are connected with the publication of Inqaba yaba Sebenzi and involved in counter-revolutionary activities which are calculated to confuse our workers, discredit our movement and derail our revolution. African National Congress National Consultative Conference
That, of course, is what they said in baseball and now the sport is a discredited shambles.
These failures caused the stimulus enacted in February 2009 to be botched in both in its design and its administration, resulting in the discrediting of deficit spending as a response to depression.
Nevertheless, for reasons that may be thought discreditable, legislatures keep enacting such laws and there is no constitutional reason to say they may not.
Data that discredit such old drugs may serve well in marketing the new generation of antidepressants.
His conviction was based on evidence, now discredited, that the fire was arson. Times, Sunday Times
From his own perspective - though crucially not from ours, and we should be sure to make this distinction - such a thing could have brought him only discredit.
Scientific discoveries have discredited religious belief.
If using the White House propaganda machinery to try to discredit a critic is a crime, then every administration since John Adams could be considered a criminal enterprise. Think Progress » Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
Even so, his words and evidence have been discredited in ways which make the public feel he might be responsible for his own misfortunes.
This isn't the first TV show letting working people see into the heart of our discredited welfare system. The Sun
Many nonnuclear countries openly threaten to discredit efforts at nonproliferation.
What has come to be known as the homunculus theory of vision has long been discredited. Detaching the Retina
Regulators are discredited, politicians are bickering and central banks are ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
You might want to do it if your aim was not only to discredit the story but to discredit the source and discourage others from crossing you.
It was clearly not reliable or repeatable and therefore not amenable to science and quickly discredited.
In the long term, these buildings may be lucky to escape association with the discredited global financial system that has paid for them. Times, Sunday Times
The derision into which the Cult of the Supreme Being fell after the overthrow of the Jacobins did not discredit the theme, which underwent a series of conservative metamorphoses in the 19th century.
While Maria used her own discrediting to reproduce the legitimacy of the stigmatizing discourse, she respecified that discourse's features to accord with her status as someone who has failed to uphold its central tenet.
Government in these countries has not only been totally discredited; it has become totally impotent. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
The use of “evolution” to describe a predictable progressive alteration of phenotype usually is classified under the idea of orthogenesis which I think has been discredited. Special Magazine Issues on Darwin, Evolution, ID Creationism - The Panda's Thumb
Such laws, he said, were ‘in danger of discrediting our parliament if we let that necessity to have high standards in public life lead to an intrusion into private family life’.
The excessive regulations discredit the essential.
Both are totally discredited laughing stocks that add to the variety of political life.
Acknowledgement of such failure has not led to a dramatic change in efficiency at either agency, despite public vows to co-operate with each other and to end the fratricidal war of a thousand leaks by which each discredited the other.
Your failure reflects no discredit upon you—you did your best.
He has been vilified, discredited and discarded in a manner usually reserved for world class failures.
He brings discredit upon himself by using this publication as a forum for his whining.
But so what if their stories are inventions that have been thoroughly discredited?
Moreover, corporations have powerful “think tanks” that work to influence public opinion in devious ways, such as creating the image of “unbiased research” by a panel of well-paid scientific charlatans – most insidiously used to discredit global warming for the past decade. Widespread Sustainable Consumerism is More Vital Than Taking Individual Actions
A conference paper talking about the 19th century Physical Culture movement in Britain and Superhuman figures in prose fiction, including some of the bodybuilder types - and how they were discredited. Archive 2010-01-01
I'm concerned a department supposed to be helping fight crime has brought discredit on itself.
Avoid the tendency to discredit the ideas of others when they disagree with your ideas or challenge you.
His prospects of parole do not look good, as his record grows daily more discreditable.
Now the anti-abortion crowd has decided to "medicalize" their narrow views about birth control with false information that has been widely discredited in the medical community. Terry Cosgrove: So-Called Pro-Lifers Should Stop Promoting Abortion
In this upside-down world picture, nobody is too discredited to be fashioned into a hero and nobody too blameless to be set up as a villain.
Though they tried to appear sympathetic to the cases of detention, the CID was evidently fishing for information to discredit the articles.
The gene-phene map thing was discredited long ago, yet here you are making the even more outrageous claim of a gene-exterior environment and way-of-life map. Death of a popular anti-ID argument
This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution. What is Coming?
However, some defeatists led by him tried every means to discredit the war party at court, going so far as to make false accusations.
They took action to discredit a potential troublemaker, for want of a better phrase. The Sun
N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors.
If nationalism and the nation state were to some degree discredited on the Continent, they were vindicated in Britain.
Whether creditable or discreditable, that is the fact. Three Guineas
They made an effort to discredit the politician.
Postmodernism discredits the concepts of ‘beauty’ and ‘aesthetics’ because they are subjective terms.

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