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damage the reputation of — often causing distrust of or disbelief in
- The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (41% in)
- "Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited.Book One — 1805 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "discredit" in War and Peace.
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