Discredit

(verb.) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; 'The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary'.

(verb.) damage the reputation of; 'This newspaper story discredits the politicians'.

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• You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• She wished to discredit it entirely, repeatedly exclaiming, This must be false! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Live for that, then; live for me, Eugene; live to see how hard I will try to improve myself, and never to discredit you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And of course it is a discredit to his doctrines, said Mrs. Sprague, who was elderly, and old-fashioned in her opinions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I am happy to be able to inform you, _with truth_, that this gentleman did as much credit to his country as Malone had done it discredit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Here was muddle and failure enough to discredit any general--had it been known. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Among this number, and I hope it is no discredit to the profession of the law, its great oracle, _Sir Edward Coke_, appears. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• According to an old story, now discredited, as he rose from his knees after the ceremony he whispered to a friend _Eppur si muove_ (It does move, nevertheless). 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was then rejected like a discredited ladder. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Perhaps he has a subconscious fear of the isolation that may ensue if the system is broken or discredited. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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