Discredit \Dis*cred"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discredited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discrediting}.] [Cf. F. discr['e]diter.] 1. To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
2. To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. --Strype.
2. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went. --Sir H. Wotton.
Discredit \Dis*cred"it\, n. [Cf. F. discr['e]dit.] 1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
2. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. --Rogers.
The guerrilla-controlled Afghan News Agency charged that government troops fire rockets at civilian targets to discredit the mujahedeen, or Islamic holy warriors.
Haq also said Soviet and Afghan forces were rocketing the capital in an effort to discredit the rebels and turn the population against them.
A Texas Air spokesman scoffed about the employees' concerns as a "ridiculous" effort to discredit the process.
Stripping him of the honor would further discredit the man now widely condemned for plunging the economy into crisis and stagnating the rest of Soviet society.
Iranian leaders denied involvement and accused Saudi authorities of trying to discredit them.
Patrick Lekota, an ANC official in Durban, called the attack "a desperate attempt to discredit the liberation movement as a whole." About 5,000 blacks have been killed in factional fighting since 1986 in Natal Province, which includes Durban.
He accused Washington of trying to discredit his brother and heir-apparent, Defense Minister Raul Castro, through a propaganda campaign.
He said it would be difficult for Labour to discredit the booklet because it needed the arguments to attack the SNP.
It therefore became necessary to discredit Mr Clinton as an individual - by whatever available means. Americans like fighting campaigns and have become pretty much accustomed to seeing them waged ruthlessly.
He said it was another attempt by Soviet officials to discredit people agitating for annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave of neighboring Azerbaijan.
Meese called the story an "outrageous and scurrilous attack." He said an attempt to discredit him through his wife was "the lowest form of journalism." Meese said the Benders made a charitable contribution and did not pay Mrs. Meese's salary.
The Democrats and their supporting intellectuals have sought to discredit the Reagan economic boom, arguing that the Reagan policies, tax cuts in particular, have helped the rich and hurt the poor.
Mr. Pipes's commentary raised a major question in my mind: If indeed the conspiracy theory is so weak, couldn't Mr. Pipes work to discredit the theory instead of its author?
Also Thursday, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto accused the U.S. government of spreading "systematic lies" to discredit Nicaragua and its preparations for free elections in 1990.
"Many scientists won't join cooperatives because they say it will discredit them," says Nikolai Lavrov, a deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers.
They have to both discredit the company plan and accredit their own."
Mr. Wardrop agrees that any blunders in trying to make sense of the voluminous data to be disclosed would discredit the whole effort.
The discredit which has rebounded on the political class is now being purged.
The defense tried to discredit government witnesses, many of whom had serious criminal records.
Defense attorney Gerald Feffer attempted to discredit the witnesses as disgruntled ex-employees who had a vendetta against Mrs. Helmsley, whom he described as tough and abrasive.
Yeltsin and his supporters accuse party officials of waging a campaign to discredit him that included formation of a commission by the party's policy-making Central Committee last week to review whether his views are at odds with party policies.
Morris has pleaded innocent to three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of conduct bringing discredit upon the Army and one count of sodomy.
If standard methods of academic inquiry discredit the theory of evolution, you won't find the ACLU running into court to defend it.
Assuming the stock market doesn't crash again and completely discredit yuppies and trading rooms, American television audiences in a few months may be seeing Britain's concept of both.
The reason why this is important is not to discredit the authors of the theory, but to provide justifiable hope to market timers, stock selectors, portfolio managers, analysts and other professionals recommending securities world-wide.
Instead, needless to say, Senator Boren's committee is offering the American people yet one more chapter in the Democratic Party's interminable effort to discredit the years of the Reagan presidency.
Rightly or wrongly, it has shared in the discredit into which would-be scientific economics has fallen.
By voting to disband and recreate itself as, in effect, a party of social democrats, the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party cut loose from the Stalinist ball and chain that threatened to discredit it with voters.
(The committee in fact never got off the ground because a number of those chosen refused to serve). The Right weighed in, determined to wring the maximum from this magnificent opportunity to discredit the Left ahead of elections.
So the other side has only one choice: discredit Lopez.