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
The group's deep-dyed conservatism and hostility to social protest widely discredited it.
Reputations are rehabilitated or discredited.
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
The judge ruled that the defendant had no case to answer, as the evidence had been discredited.
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
One reason may be that this form of cover is confused with widely discredited payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
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
His conviction was based on evidence, now discredited, that the fire was arson. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
The idea that fracking could be a transition fuel is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas.
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
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
By their selectivity of causes and their self-serving approach they have discredited themselves as genuine defenders of human rights and liberties.
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
The idea that fracking could be a transition fuel is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
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
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'
So a totally discredited source of energy is being imposed upon the country, simply because the government impetuously committed itself to it.
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
If planning is so inefficient, and discredited in economic theory, why does it persist? Times, Sunday Times
The idea that the sun goes round the earth has long been discredited.
That, of course, is what they said in baseball and now the sport is a discredited shambles.
His conviction was based on evidence, now discredited, that the fire was arson. Times, Sunday Times
Scientific discoveries have discredited religious belief.
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
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
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
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
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.
He has been vilified, discredited and discarded in a manner usually reserved for world class failures.
But so what if their stories are inventions that have been thoroughly discredited?
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
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.
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?
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.
The use of police informers was discredited in the 1980s after a series of convictions were quashed on appeal. Times, Sunday Times
Available through health stores or complementary therapists, they employ medically discredited methods such as electrodermal testing and hair analysis. Times, Sunday Times
But could the spectacle of a completely discredited president -- where the discrediting is in effect led by Jim Baker, not by Nancy Pelosi -- putting American soldiers (including Jim Webb's son) in jeopardy for no truly defensible reason, relying only on his legal powers as president, be the trainwreck needed to generate serious discussion of the merits of a fixed-term, non-replaceable (save for criminal misconduct) president? Balkinization
One of these children has Down's syndrome, and Precious calls him Mongo, short for "Mongoloid" - that discredited term Precious The Guardian World News
In any other part of the world, such a coach would not even dare to return to the country that he has so disgraced and discredited.
The mass media are discredited as purveyors of the true.
Due to professional autonomy, no one can challenge their refusal to abandon this entirely discredited methodology.
The rest of Dr.T. 's epistle is pettifoggery, but I am surprised that a scholarly person, who should be conversant with the findings of modern Russian history (from Kliuchevsky onward to Crankshaw), would defend the wholly discredited Romanov dynasty, which inflicted such continuous harm on Russian culture. Cranberry Jello
This system was later discredited because chemicals added to the concrete corroded the steel used to reinforce it, making it weaker.
And where might such a discreditable and discredited figure be found?
Since then it has persisted in residual form as an idea, discredited for some and regarded with nostalgia by others. The Times Literary Supplement
By the end of that decade, any pretensions to national independence had become thoroughly discredited.
Some of their key witnesses are dead, others are badly discredited and still others have recanted.
In this limited way, some development eventually filters down - the largely discredited but still very popular trickle-down theory beloved of neo-liberal economists and policy makers.
This curious fact meant the photos would appear genuine to non-military people, such as journalists, but could easily be discredited later by military experts.
The theory is rendered suspect by its reliance on now discredited sources.
They bring our discredited judicial system further into disrepute. The Sun
One reason imperialism is so discredited in postimperial times is that, contrary to the old saw, history has often been written not by the victors but by the vanquished—or at least by those who tell the story from the vantage of their aggrieved, often enslaved forebears. The Great Experiment
Certainly not by holding out the old discredited promises of military victory. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
The "anti-Semite" canard is by now old, tired and discredited, but that won't stop certain commentators on the Right from pulling it out of the dumpster and waving it in the air when it suits them. Archive 2009-01-01
What follows is an attack on 'Muhammadanism' a repeat of discredited Orientalist nonsense which a casual reading of virtually any work of Newmatilda.com - Comments
It is now universally discredited. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the information about Iraq's alleged WMD programs was funneled through the INC - information that has been universally discredited.
Scientific discoveries have discredited religious belief.
It is now universally discredited. Times, Sunday Times
Her honor was discredited in the newspapers.
Rumsfeld is such a discredited anti-Anerican liar, why would CNN publish anything he said? Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'
Regulators are discredited, politicians are bickering and central banks are ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of justifying the expectations he had aroused by vigorously enforcing the principles of his letter of acceptance and inaugural address, the President, as if inthralled by some mysterious spell, had discredited his professions by his performances. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
He was rolled by his colleagues and now he is in a pickle on so many fronts that he is one of the most discredited members of the Government.
MacSwan's basic quarrel is with the widely discredited notion of semilingualism that, he argues, is perpetuated in Cummins' theories.
The "anti-Semite" canard is by now old, tired and discredited, but that won't stop certain commentators on the Right from pulling it out of the dumpster and waving it in the air when it suits them. Archive 2009-01-01
It appears as though our slow-witted friend randy is so leery of actually discussing the topic of Republican abuse of filibusters that he’s willing to float easily-discredited misperceptions of the Great Depression as a diversion. Think Progress » Biden Attacks GOP Abuse Of Filibuster: ‘You Can’t Govern If You Require A Super Majority’
His conviction was based on evidence, now discredited, that the fire was arson. Times, Sunday Times
They bring our discredited judicial system further into disrepute. The Sun
A Sunday Times investigation has uncovered how a discredited subsidy system and a secretive fish quota scheme have compounded the crisis in the seas. Times, Sunday Times
Sadly, this system is totally discredited. The Sun
With increasingly unified parties squaring off—a development the founders, who disliked the idea of regularized party competition, never anticipated—even a beleaguered and discredited caucus, if it holds together, will be extremely powerful. Winner-Take-All Politics
The English department is a living graveyard of all the dead and discredited ideologies that have been cast off by other departments.
Government in these countries has not only been totally discredited; it has become totally impotent. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
The idea that fracking could be a transition fuel is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
The verb kana is polysemic, a feature which has allowed the by-now-discredited translation “to acquire” instead of the less theologically palatable “to create.” Creation According to Eve: Beyond Genesis 3.
When hunting was banned, there was much insincere, scientifically discredited waffle about cruelty to animals.
Files disappear and former employees are discredited with allegations and lies.
As this view wins general favour, the elder is denounced and discredited.
Ironically, discredited rating agencies might even damage trust in hitherto creditworthy governments.
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
That is the situation in which discredited insurer Equitable Life has found itself.
His reports about the war affairs in the Middle-East area have been discredited because it is realized that the reporter used false information.
It is shocking that after so many crises staff are still using clapped out and discredited systems and keeping each other in the dark. The Sun
The physician's testimony might be impeached, and the report thereby discredited.
Sadly, this system is totally discredited. The Sun
One that might topple the whole discredited edifice. The Sun
We must show our country that there is an alternative to this deceitful, dishonest, and discredited government.
We must show our country that there is an alternative to this deceitful, dishonest, and discredited government.
As a conceptual analysis of the idea of law, sanction theories of the traditional Austinian type are largely discredited.
By your same standard, AI ought to be a total misnomer, or the field of study is discredited from the start since it has no definition (a position I do not hold since I accept weak AI). Aiguy's Computer
Their blood fathers were disgraced or dead, and if still present were discredited. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
This royalist victory was partly because the Bonapartists and republicans were both discredited by fighting a losing war, and partly because many of the local notables who were elected were instinctively royalist.
The idea that the sun goes round the earth has long been discredited.
This is why our honours system is discredited and the public has no confidence in it. Times, Sunday Times
We should stress that we are not suggesting any form of vitalism - the discredited notion that living matter differs from all other matter by possessing some peculiar ingredient or elan vital.
And yet this most discredited Government still think they can implement a National Identity Register, the words piss-up in a brewery come to mind. Archive 2008-08-01
Since it was so discredited, I felt sure that Dembski would not use the quote in the published version of his book.
But surely that is now discredited? Times, Sunday Times
The discredited army came under popular pressure to step aside and allow an elected civilian to negotiate a peace process.
Huge exposure to guaranteed annuities was the main reason for the downfall of discredited insurer Equitable Life, as it had not kept enough reserves to pay them.
In Taylor's report into the disaster in August 1989, he described the Sun's stories as "grave and emotive calumnies" and wholly discredited them, saying: "Not a single witness was called before the inquiry to support any of those allegations. Hillsborough disaster: MPs debate disclosure of secret documents - as it happened
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
The concept of giving perfect financial advice has rightly been discredited and a system of warnings is the natural alternative.
She spent 18 nightmare months in jail before the evidence on her double murder conviction was discredited and she was cleared on appeal in December 2003.
Kelly was then called before a parliamentary committee, where, in halting, hesitant testimony, he neither fully confirmed nor discredited the BBC story.
OK, OK, this sounds like entryism, and we know how discredited that philosophy is, right?
Opponents of the SAT say we don't know what it measures and hint darkly that it smacks of discredited IQ testing.
If planning is so inefficient, and discredited in economic theory, why does it persist? Times, Sunday Times
It seems to me the "whacky" among right wing evengelicals have a lot more practical power to do genuine harm to their fellow Americans than do a discredited African American cult. Farrakhan's Support For Obama? Hugely Controversial. Hagee's Backing Of McCain? No Problem.
One reason may be that this form of cover is confused with widely discredited payment protection insurance. Times, Sunday Times
It also enwraps them in a world in which facts supportive of Democratic claims are discredited and those consistent with conservative ones championed. How the conservative media harm democracy
A shame to see someone with much to say on a range of issues, so discredited by her hatstand views here. Driven out by the Wall
The truth of the matter is, Alex, if anyone disagrees with the guy's policies, they are immediately discredited.
No sooner had this farrago of half-truths and complete fiction been discredited then along came the second myth.
This is a chance to reform a discredited system. Times, Sunday Times
As science strode boldly into one arena of knowledge after another, it discredited claims to the infallibility of revelation.
We discredited the story as mere rumour.
That's surely as discredited now as a bouncing cheque. Times, Sunday Times
Translation: the fraternity chose to retain their own legal rights including the right to direct their own lives themselves and so are being sued for failure to adopt a long discredited "prohibitionist" set of policies. seriouscat (Anonymous) says … LJWorld.com stories: News
Van Bebber and Taylor pointed out the same errors in Ross's earlier book, and it's tiresome to see Ross repeating discredited nonsensical arguments time after time.
Now discredited owing to regulators' reluctance to consider extreme enough outcomes. Times, Sunday Times
The alliance between these discredited forces could not withstand a sustained political offensive by the working class.
For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority.
However, he said he was not ready to take the stage any time soon and discredited recent promotions under which his name appeared.
Old, formerly discredited ideas about race and culture are on the ascent once again.
They were determined to stop the widespread corruption that had discredited government contracting.
Government in these countries has not only been totally discredited; it has become totally impotent. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Our country is one of the most distrusted, unliked, unreliable and discredited of all nations on earth.
Kahn apparently also discredited Mandela as a "self-confessed liar and hitman" who had first implicated three UDM members in the killing and then "somersaulted" and implicated the six ANC members. ANC Daily News Briefing
Their bill virtually wiped out funding for commercial contracts -- money that they want to waste on the old Constellation system, a discredited and dinosaurian space project based on the failed approaches of the past. Rick Tumlinson: The Battle for the Frontier -- A Historic Moment
As part of that effort, Obama is on a six-state swing, arriving in Portland on Wednesday to press his message that GOP victories could thwart his agenda and usher in what he calls discredited policies from the Bush era. Chicagotribune.com - News
Hellespont as along a royal road; and how his army drank a whole river dry -- all of which is gravely related by Herodotus as fact, is discredited by the Latin poet JUVENAL, who attributes these stories to the imaginations of "browsy poets. Mosaics of Grecian History
It was widely agreed that the episode had damaged the public image of Congress and had discredited the confirmation process.
It's just one big list of long discredited arguments cribbed from creationist pamphlets by someone who clearly doesn't have a clue.
Similarly, the images of discredited rulers were effaced in the monumental narrative reliefs which played so prominent a role in imperial propaganda art.
The ability to call early elections when incumbents have been discredited is one of the strengths of these kind of systems of government, but you may as well use the power to actually avoid America-style “months of drifting aimlessly.” Matthew Yglesias » Resigning in Iceland
But for the now-infamous and discredited "hockey stick" temperature curve for the last millennium, used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to add body to the case for Kyoto, most observers would not have suspended belief over claims that today’s weather is the "mostest" "on record". Mother Jones: The Mann behind the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit
Anyone who reads the document will find these and many other prejudiced views thoroughly discredited.
The American is now discredited, but the shadow of doping still hangs over his sport. Times, Sunday Times
He offers a change from the discredited old politicians of the past.
Many once-standard treatments devised via this theoretical model now stand discredited, like the use of Thalidomide and Thorazine. antivaccinationist. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
These groups however are discredited by the outrageous actions they take to disrupt hunt meets.
The idea that the sun goes round the earth has long been discredited.
Its first proper chairman, Neville Chamberlain, was discredited in many people's eyes by appeasement, but he was the first Tory leader to dedicate himself systematically to welfare questions.

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