Sample sentences for DISCREDIT

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Definition

damage the reputation of — often causing distrust of or disbelief in

She spoke only of her strengths, but others on her campaign staff worked to discredit her opponent.

discredit = damage the reputation of

Bloodletting was a common treatment that was not widely discredited until the nineteenth century.

discredited = having a bad reputation

Russian TV is famous for inventing stories to discredit those who disagree with Russian interests.

discredit = damage the reputation of

Ever since my release from prison, the state had continued its campaign to discredit my wife.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

discredit = damage the reputation of

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.
George Orwell -- 1984

discredit = damage of reputation

You'll be kicked out of school for lying and for reflecting discredit on the Institute.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

discredit = damage to the reputation

You'd better come clean, Dwight, however discreditable it is.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach

discreditable = tending to damage the reputation

(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)

The plan, she said, was to kill or imprison her or to fake a scandal to discredit her.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

discredit = damage [her] reputation

She's trying to discredit me.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

discredit = damage the reputation of

He did not believe a word of the story, and yet, how discredit or disprove it?
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair

discredit = cause distrust of or disbelief in

How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves

discredits = damages the reputation of

It does us great discredit to treat a defeated foe like this.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

discredit = damage to reputation

Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive.
George Orwell -- 1984

discredited = have their reputation damaged

The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.
George Orwell -- 1984

discredited = had its reputation damaged

The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged.
George Orwell -- 1984

discredited = with damaged reputations

Men had discredited themselves during the genocide.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Yet look, Neville, whom I discredit in order to be myself, at my hand on the table.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
That protection is needed to prevent political enemies from having them raped; gangsters calculate that female candidates can be uniquely humiliated and discredited that way.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
He claimed that The Ten, if there is such a thing, and again, he had no more proof than any of the others, had vowed that the Institute would never graduate a woman or any man who would bring discredit on the school because of gross mental or physical peculiarities, which is rather humorous in the light of recent history.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
No one will say it is unmanly to be captivated by a woman, or, being captivated, to marry her; and the admiration, the delight, the passion, the wonder, the unbounded confidence, and frantic adoration with which, by degrees, this big warrior got to regard the little Rebecca, were feelings which the ladies at least will pronounce were not altogether discreditable to him.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair

(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)

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