[
US
/dɪsˈkɹɛdɪtɪd/
]
[ UK /dɪskɹˈɛdɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /dɪskɹˈɛdɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- suffering shame
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being unjustly brought into disrepute
her damaged reputation
a discredited politician
How To Use discredited In A Sentence
- 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!
- 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
- 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.
- The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary
- Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a _frondeur_ discredited by both parties. The Testing of Diana Mallory
- I want to refocus our curriculum to get rid of unnecessary extras and change our discredited exam system. Times, Sunday Times