DISCREDITABLE Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

discreditable

adjective

(ˌ)dis-ˈkre-də-tə-bəl

Definition of discreditable

as in notorious

not respectable the discreditable conduct of drunken college students celebrating a win by their team

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Recent Examples of discreditable By the way, the search for waste, fraud and abuse — call it WFA — has a long and discreditable history. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024 Now, the previous autobiographical snippet, like those of the other three men, may have omitted certain discreditable matters. — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023

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Adjective

The memory industry is notorious for its boom and bust cycles.

— Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 5 July 2026
One of the most notorious lynchings during the Jim Crow period in America was of Leo Frank, a Jewish man.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Definition of notorious

Adjective

Here’s a look back at the most infamous, shocking, blood-curdling or mysterious crimes and disasters that captured the attention of the nation — and the world.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
In the world of New York City real estate, Berman is prominent but neither famous nor infamous.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 11 July 2026

Definition of infamous

Adjective

Finally, the jury would be instructed that OpenAI deleted billions of logs, which would play into news plaintiffs’ narrative that OpenAI has been moving in shady ways to obscure alleged substitution in the market since the case began.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
Tiffany Haddish is reacting to the White House’s shady response to one of her Jimmy Kimmel Live punchlines.

— Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

Definition of shady

Adjective

As part of her release conditions, she has been ordered to stay away from her 13-year-old daughter while the criminal case proceeds.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 14 July 2026
In some regions, a single medical examiner may oversee hundreds of deaths each year, leading to bottlenecks that can slow criminal cases, complicate insurance claims, and leave families waiting months and sometimes years for answers.

— Gregory McDonald, STAT, 13 July 2026

Definition of criminal

Adjective

Some rabbinic readings attribute Lot’s hesitation to leave Sodom to his immoral greed and inordinate wealth.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 25 June 2026

Definition of immoral

Adjective

What is truly disgraceful is leveraging your skin color to remain employed while insisting that white privilege is responsible for your own shortcomings.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
Maradona was subject to disgraceful physical treatment and still won the match, well, single-handedly.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026

Definition of disgraceful

Adjective

His campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, has become a shameful catastrophe.

— Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Bay Staters answered a brutal heat wave and a shameful act of late-night vandalism with pure grit to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.

— Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026

Definition of shameful

Adjective

After the laughter ringing through the room subsides, though, Abela does allow for a moment of reverence — for the HBO drama if not for the disreputable people who populate it.

— Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
The cultural shift that turned horror cinema from a disreputable, rarely respected grind-house film genre into a billion-dollar-a-year mainstream business has done wonders for the genre’s overall quality.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026

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