Sample Sentences for
discredit
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    She's trying to discredit me.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    discredit = damage of reputation
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    It does us great discredit to treat a defeated foe like this.  (source)
    discredit = damage to reputation
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    However, that experience [investigating a woman who was thought to be a witch, but who he determined was not] never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants. And his belief is not to his discredit. Better minds than Hale's were—and still are—convinced that there is a society of spirits beyond our ken.  (source)
    discredit = disgrace or dishonor (damaging his reputation)
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    The document was discredited as a fabrication but still it spread, fueling anti-Semitism in the decades before World War II.†  (source)
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    You'd better come clean, Dwight, however discreditable it is.  (source)
    discreditable = tending to damage the reputation
    standard suffix: 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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    Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people, like in his photography classes.†  (source)
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    I saw a white figure, and as if to prevent my discrediting the testimony of only one of my senses, I heard my glass removed—the same which is there now on the table.†  (source)
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    The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness; but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness to the utmost, for he might often find it needful.†  (source)
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    Ever since my release from prison, the state had continued its campaign to discredit my wife.  (source)
    discredit = damage the reputation of
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    And men like that Ta-Kumsaw—they'll be dead or discredited.†  (source)
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    Discreditable?†  (source)
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    Death discredits.†  (source)
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