All 5 Uses of
discredit
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- For it would have been discreditable to insist on burdening with the common regulations so great an ascetic, who prayed day and night (he even dropped asleep on his knees).†
Chpt 7
- Even admitting that it was an action in the highest degree discreditable, still, discreditable is not 'disgraceful.†
Chpt 9 *
- Even admitting that it was an action in the highest degree discreditable, still, discreditable is not 'disgraceful.†
Chpt 9
- "What is there disgraceful, to your thinking, in your having set aside half of the three thousand you had discreditably, if you prefer, 'disgracefully,' appropriated?†
Chpt 9
- So one of the most dangerous witnesses brought forward by the prosecution was again discredited.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(discredit) damage the reputation of -- often causing distrust of or disbelief in