Example sentences for: discredit

How can you use “discredit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This corruption and authoritarianism have irked democracy advocates, but it has not been enough to fully discredit Tudjman.

  • At any rate, the mistake, trivial in itself, tended to discredit a good deal of American reporting about the Soviet Union among people who knew better.

  • It took Starr months to discredit the first school.

  • What it does view as a fundamental violation of Christian charity is detractio : disclosing another human being's private failings and weaknesses in order to ruin his good name or otherwise bring him into discredit.

  • The FBI had spied on a wide range of political figures, especially individuals whom Hoover wanted to discredit (notably the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.), and had authorized unlawful wiretaps and surveillance.


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