discredited

past tense of discredit
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discredited
Verb
  • The move comes after a Benton County circuit judge denied a preliminary injunction last month in Highfill’s lawsuit attempting to stop the airport from deannexing from the city.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Some Zionists have denied the existence of a Palestinian people and the right to self-determination of Palestinians.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • But the Biden administration has refuted the claims from the energy industry and states.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The former president has also stated that Americans broadly support the issue being decided by the states, which is decisively refuted by all reliable public polling.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Many familiar newsmen were pushed out of their jobs and disgraced for behaving badly — Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes and so on.
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • For this band of once-precocious kids now slipping into middle-age, disgraced ’80s art queen Mary Boone evokes the tarnished dreams of Manhattan transplants and a bag dropped onto the train track must be let go no matter what.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Advertisement That toll has, in other years, seemingly worn Betts down by this point, when the grind of 162 games over the summer can be negated by a single bad series in the fall.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Defensive holding penalties negated what would have been two sacks for him against Caleb Williams.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
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