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.
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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
Even if that's true, his role is discreditable.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 10 Sep. 2021
The desire for it is not necessarily wrong or discreditable.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 July 2019
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
Even if that's true, his role is discreditable.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 10 Sep. 2021
The desire for it is not necessarily wrong or discreditable.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discreditable
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In November 2022, for example, one indigenous witness reported seeing members of notorious paramilitary group Comandos de la Frontera playing soccer on protected Awá Curanzu lands with contractors for Gran Tierra.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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LLMs are notorious for hallucinating and producing believable but incorrect or misleading text.—
Jochen Deister,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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De Ravin also appeared in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Michael Mann’s Public Enemies (2009), and the infamous Remember Me (2010) with Robert Pattinson.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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No one argues that the Honduran with a criminal record shouldn’t have been picked up and sent to the infamous ICE holding facility in Broadview, the western suburb in Cook County, which last fall was the target of numerous protests by anti-immigration demonstrators.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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After a long weekend that sent people in Britain flocking to beaches, pools and shady parks, London commuters sweltered on Tuesday in subway carriages without air conditioning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 May 2026
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El Claustro, under cloister vaults, is perfect for a shady mid-day lunch of temperature-recalibrating ceviche.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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When continuity of care breaks down, the consequences eventually reappear inside emergency rooms, homeless shelters and criminal justice systems.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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The erosion of due process when AI mediates government decisions in welfare, immigration, and the criminal justice system.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Players take on the role of one of four Vault Hunters searching for mythical vaults while trying to take on the planet’s immoral dictator.—
Sheena Vasani,
The Verge,
23 May 2026
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The government has suspended the platform several times, citing concerns that the app promotes immoral or unlawful content.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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To be ill in public was disgraceful, an affront.—
Tom Levenson,
Time,
20 May 2026
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The Boston Red Sox, a disgraceful, embarrassing organization that was once proud but is now one of the worst teams in baseball, have really dug themselves in a hole this time.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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The beginning of this short but deeply human missive indicts the racial politics of the era and the shameful legacy of slavery.—
Anna Holmes,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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These men considered the loss of control that such behavior implied-an animal urge indulged by weak men lacking the courage to fight other men directly-to be shameful.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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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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After Kent’s resignation, Republican hawks denounced him as a kook and a traitor to the cause, without touching on the delicate question of why Trump appointed such a disreputable figure in the first place.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Discreditable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discreditable. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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