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dis·cred·it·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. discredited, damagedadjective

    being unjustly brought into disrepute

    "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"

  2. discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamedadjective

    suffering shame

GCIDE

  1. discreditedadjective

    having been shown to be incorrect; as, a discredited theory or policy.

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  1. discredited

    Discredited refers to something or someone that has lost credibility, respect or reputation due to certain actions, behaviors, or revelations. It suggests a scenario where previous beliefs, ideas or claims about that thing or person have been proven false or unreliable. Discredited might also refer to theories or hypotheses that have been rejected or disproven through evidence or logical reasoning.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Discredited

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of discredited in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of discredited in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of discredited in a Sentence

  1. Brian Fallon:

    Two months ago, there was a political report that directly challenged the finding of this inspector general, and I don't think he liked that very much. So I think he put two Republican senators up to sending him a letter so he would have an excuse to resurface the same allegations he made back in the summer that had been discredited.

  2. America Eric Ferrero:

    Extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood's mission and services are making outrageous and completely false claims. They are engaged in a fraud, and other claims they've made have been discredited and disproven.

  3. Dawn Laguens:

    All of the tapes and footage David Daleiden has released out into the world has been heavily edited, and I think pretty thoroughly discredited.

  4. Thomas Sowell:

    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

  5. David Brock:

    Nothing is below Donald Trump, including paying Kathleen Willey’s mortgage so Kathleen Willey could ‘ hit the road and start speaking out on Hillary, ’ kathleen Willey mortgage is Kathleen Willey mortgage that this serial liar is willing to pay for the re-peddling of these unfounded, already-discredited claims. The media needs to ask : Who else is Trump paying ?

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