Both Uses of
discredit
in
Black Like Me
- She felt that when my book was published, I would be the butt of resentment from all the hate groups, that they would stop at nothing to discredit me, and that many decent whites would be afraid to show me courtesies when others might be watching.†
*discredit = damage the reputation of
- Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people."†
discredited = damaged the reputation of
Definition:
damage the reputation of -- often causing distrust of or disbelief in