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discredit

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verb

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as in to deny
to think not to be true or real I discredit the story that the old inn is haunted

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Recent Examples of discredit
Noun
To the credit of his players and the discredit of his critics, Cronin’s team has responded by turning things around and playing some of the most active and inspired basketball in the country. Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025 Again; Red Sox Headed For Disaster Per PECOTA Orioles' World Series Champion Infielder, Longtime Coach Passes Away To their discredit, the Rockies have done little to stem the tide this offseason. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
An investigation later found evidence of orchestrated efforts to discredit the study. Bloomberg News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025 In the book, she's portrayed as someone suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and on anxiety medication, both of which are used to discredit her and paint her as unwell. Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for discredit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discredit
Noun
  • Amid her disgrace, Baldwin somewhat retreated from social media and from constantly posting images of her seven children, which critics found exploitative.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This person has brought shame and disgrace to the badge and to an honorable profession.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pressing for payment could humiliate people, who often arrive with their extended families, Parmar explained, and in a community this close-knit, that could mean losing dozens of patients, including many of the Medicaid patients who keep the clinic afloat.
    Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • By the time the cameras stopped clicking and the newsmen flew home, Kentucky had been humiliated in the national press, the onlooker’s violence both disputed and affirmed in accounts of this day.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Upon the basis of these findings, Congress declares that the constitutional right of citizens to vote is denied or abridged in some areas by the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The administration says the white South African farmers face discrimination and violence in South Africa, which the country’s government denies.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In their letter Tuesday, Smith's attorneys sought to refute a narrative stemming from a document released by the FBI on the eve of Attorney General Pam Bondi's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Like Dunbar’s speakers, Hughes’s dispossessed have no way out, and the poem implicitly refutes optimism regarding the Great Migration and racial progress.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What a shame Dennis Gimball won’t be alive to run on it.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Which is a shame, as Denver had veteran hands on-side.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Bears lost this matchup in embarrassing fashion last year as the Commanders completed a Hail Mary with time expiring.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The games themselves are embarrassing enough to watch.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The higher-ups are disbelieving, but Alex points out that the network has a fancy new AI that can replicate her voice in a zillion languages.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Pearl, Dale’s adult daughter, vacillates between disbelieving that her father committed suicide and blaming her mother for it.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But while his strategy is working well negating Ohtani, the Brewers have their own problems.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bennett Simmering’s second field goal of the game, this time from 31 yards out, gave the Irish a 20-9 lead midway through the fourth quarter, one play after an apparent Lakeville South fumble recovery was negated because officials said the runner’s forward progress had been stopped.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Discredit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discredit. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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