Crossword-Solution: DISCREDIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discredit | n. | The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. |
| Discredit | n. | Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things. |
| Discredit | v. t. | To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited. |
| Discredit | v. t. | To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. |
| Discredit | v. t. | To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with DISCREDIT (5)
Such will try to discredit the shocking tales of slaveholding cruelty which are recorded in this truthful Narrative; but they will labor in vain.
Then the great objection he had felt to allowing news of his proximity to precede him to Weatherbury in the event of his return, based on a feeling that knowledge of his present occupation would discredit him still further in his wife’s eyes, returned in full force.
Much and deservedly to my own discredit, therefore, and considerably to the detriment of my official conscience, they continued, during my incumbency, to creep about the wharves, and loiter up and down the Custom-House steps.
JEDR's only permanent effect on the net.culture was to discredit `sensitivity' arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal rejection.
The personages of the tale—though they give themselves out to be of ancient stability and considerable prominence—are really of the author’s own making, or at all events, of his own mixing; their virtues can shed no lustre, nor their defects redound, in the remotest degree, to the discredit of the venerable town of which they profess to be inhabitants.
Quotes with DISCREDIT (3)
The best way to discredit something is to come with a better way of doing that thing.
[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to a fearful creature who took a mistakenly guarded, absurdly cautious approach to his work, which would end up stifling his latent genius.
Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2015).