discreditably
discredit
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /dɪˈskred.ɪt/ us /dɪˈskred.ɪt/
loss of respect for or belief in someone or something: 丧失名誉，失去信誉
bring discredit onThe stupid behaviour of one student has brought discredit on the whole school.一名学生的愚蠢行为让整个学校蒙羞。
to someone's discreditTo her discredit, she never admitted her role in the scandal.她一直不承认自己参与了这桩丑闻，这使她在人们心中的形象大打折扣。

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discredit | American Dictionary

discredit
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈkred·ɪt/
to give people reason to stop believing someone or to doubt the truth of something:
The old Soviet economic model has been thoroughly discredited.
It’s the job of the defense to discredit prosecution witnesses.

discredit

noun[ U ]us/dɪsˈkred·ɪt/
fml
He’s brought discredit on himself.

Examples of discredit

discredit
He discredited the then new theory that human beings had descended from apes because the proofs presented were purely anatomical.
Elster clearly believes that he has discredited the loose interpretation.
My view is that neither database should be completely discredited.
We interpret this to mean that authoritarian regimes have been widely discredited across the continent.
All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one.
Although the record is mixed, events since 2002 have not really discredited these hopeful assessments.
Churches were discredited and their role as agents of development has been curtailed.
The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias.
In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand.
Perhaps what discredited the system more was the implementation of market reforms for which there was no electoral mandate and which aggravated social tensions.
In each case he points out evidence that convincingly discredits the causal link posited by the conventional account.
In the textile industry's centenary volume, an anonymous writer declared triumphantly in 1951 that 'crude and corrupt methods have now thoroughly been discredited'.
By controlled experimentation, as we shall see, such an interpretation has been discredited, and now preference reversals are generally accepted as real.
Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
Two features of colonial-era historiography, both discredited, make an unwanted appearance.
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