discreditably

Examples of discrediting

discrediting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The church would only regain the influence it had enjoyed in previous ages, they felt, if it cut its discrediting links to the state.
In the vari-directional case, the speaker voices the style with the intention of discrediting it (that is, parodies it).
All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one.
The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias.
Discrediting traditional ritual practice is a common feature of new religious movements.
This discrediting of their ideological bases comes precisely when they begin to operate as legal political par ties.
Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
The discrediting aspects of stigma were operationally defined as being thought less of by other people.
The crisis went some way towards discrediting the insider government-business relations.
In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand.
Even though it has performed the useful function of discrediting technological determinism, the concept suggests too narrow a set of influences that shape technology.
Earlier, on pages 136-137, he had discussed the use of ' discrediting mechanisms ' by those who do want to neuter the impact of diversity and disagreement on their cherished beliefs.
Social stigma involves inter-personal perception and interaction by concentrating on traits, viewed by the person possessing them, as discrediting in the eyes of others.
Stigma is a social attribute which is discrediting for an individual or group.
The correlation between discrediting the idea of a 'moral motive' and denying the idea of intrinsic, absolute concepts of good and evil is a very close one.
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