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discredit
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  • She's trying to discredit me.  (source)
  • The plan, she said, was to kill or imprison her or to fake a scandal to discredit her.  (source)
    discredit = damage [her] reputation
  • 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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  • It does us great discredit to treat a defeated foe like this.  (source)
    discredit = damage to reputation
  • The document was discredited as a fabrication but still it spread, fueling anti-Semitism in the decades before World War II.†  (source)
    discredited = damaged the reputation of
  • 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.
  • 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)
    discredits = damages the reputation of
  • 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)
    discrediting = damaging the reputation of
  • It was a long time since any well-known banker had failed discreditably; but every one remembered the social extinction visited on the heads of the firm when the last event of the kind had happened.†  (source)
  • Ever since my release from prison, the state had continued its campaign to discredit my wife.  (source)
    discredit = damage the reputation of
  • Could Claude have concluded so quickly that if Edgar sounded mad with jealousy, anything else he said would be discredited?†  (source)
    discredited = damaged the reputation of
  • Discreditable?†  (source)
    Discreditable = tending to damage the reputation of
  • Death discredits.†  (source)
    discredits = damages the reputation of
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