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Example sentences for: discredit

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One of the things the educated elites did during the CCRI fight was to use the full power of their influence in the media and the culture to oppose, discredit, and in many cases smear the supporters.
I might accuse them of being pernicious tools of Satan (well, OK, Disney), but I wouldn't be so disrespectful as to dismiss them lightly or discredit (all of) their motives.
These setbacks brought discredit to the whole idea of government activism, converting practical failure into political failure.
Call Chatterbox paranoid--you won't be the first!--but could it be that pro-preference university officials want to discredit Prop. 209 by painting its consequences as more dire than they actually are? ...
"The purpose of most cross-examinations" is "not to establish facts but to discredit the witness," she asserts, as though the two objectives were unrelated.