16 Verbs to Use for the Word discredit

It runs"Because the whole transaction tends to bring discredit on our country and its institutions.

" Mr. Pitman's tone threw discredit on that possibility, but she knew perfectly well what she meant.

" Don Sanchez assents with a bow to this proposal, but with a rueful glance at the rich panels of the wall, as fearing this painter might be as poor in talent as in his clothesthe latter reflecting discredit on the formerand would disfigure the handsome walls with some rude daub.

He afterwards transferred himself to the rival coterie of the Countess Benzoni, and gave himself up with little reserve to the intrigues which cast discredit on this portion of his life.

"Madame Gilbert thinks a lot of him, and would be pained if he suffered discredit through any fault of hers.

If the officer is harsh or overbearing or incompetent, the Government gets the discredit of it; the villager assumes that Government is also harsh, overbearing, and incompetent.

The Southern papers called them the mutinous Sixth, and said and did every thing to place discredit upon them.

I say: If the theory of Christianity is to take credit from the history of Christendom, it must also receive discredit.

" But, after all said and done, the institution of knighthood is older than any particular order of knights; and lovers of the old world must observe with regret the discredit into which it has fallen since it became the guerdon of the successful grocer.

The referendum is of precisely the same nature, but this already has become a reductio ad absurdum, and can hardly survive the discredit into which it has fallen.

Nor did William Halketto whom for his merits we accord the full Christian namedo any discredit to the perspicacity of his master, if it was not that he rather exceeded the hopes of his benefactor, for he was attentive to the horses, civil to the farmers, and handy at anything that came in his way.

It will be a historical fact, made palpable to succeeding ages, that you have wiped off a discredit from Scotland's church and nation, by securing a suitable memorial of one of her most distinguished sons, in the most conspicuous position the Metropolis could assign to it.

You are inclined to discredit one particular form of Imposture, because it is not generally admittedcarries a certain discredit, andwitness the heel edges of my trouser legs, witness yonder viandssmall rewards.

Villeroy and Jeannin were the immediate agents of his dismissal from office, as they ascribed to him their own previous discredit at Court, and had long been secretly labouring to repay him in kind; but their triumph was destined to be short-lived.

Does Admiral Mahan mean us to take him at his word when he would attach to such efforts the same discredit that one implies in talking of a mercenary individual?

The men attached to each were styled its 'gang,' a word which conveys no discredit in nautical language.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  discredit