DISCREDIT in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for DISCREDIT, such as:

1. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery.
2. Of which discredit they were themselves the cause.
3. Such behavior can only reflect discredit upon you.
4. By telling lies he brought discredit upon Parliament.
5. Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCREDIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discredit
 v.  defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
Classic Sentence:
1  This was notable misconduct, and likely, unless both offenders were punished, to bring discredit on the Roman name.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI.
2  I have noticed this point the more readily, because I have often found such uncertainty hinder the public business of our own republic, to its detriment and discredit.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV.
3  But these three falling out among themselves, and being divided in their counsels, returned from their mission with discredit though not with loss.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV.
4  Of which discredit they were themselves the cause.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV.
5  This becoming known in Rome brought Claudius into so much discredit both with the senate and people, that to his great mortification and displeasure, he was slightingly spoken of by the whole city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII.
6  He, however, refused absolutely to lend himself to their designs, and insisted on their appointing new consuls, telling them that they should seek to discredit evil examples, not add to them by setting worse.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIV.
7  You could scarcely escape discredit and misery.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59
8  If every play is to be objected to, you will act nothing, and the preparations will be all so much money thrown away, and I am sure that would be a discredit to us all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  whitewashed over, would not discredit a chateau in the style of yours.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
10  Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
11  The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  By telling lies he brought discredit upon Parliament.
2  Sylvia does not get on with the supervisor and the danger is that he will trump up some charge to discredit her.
3  That guy is a discredit to his family and relatives and friends.
4  Such behavior can only reflect discredit upon you.
5  Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.
6  The campaign was highly negative in tone; each candidate tried to discredit the other.
7  Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
8  The idea that the sun goes round the earth has long been discredited.
9  The theory is rendered suspect by its reliance on now discredited sources.