Example sentences for: discredited

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

  • For a short time--I think it was when IBM started laying off tens of thousands of workers--it seemed that the ideas of economies of scale and scope had been permanently discredited.

  • It's inconceivable that Bush and his staff don't know the Bernall story has been discredited; Bush's speechwriter, Mike Gerson, was until a few months ago a journalist , for Pete's sake.

  • In contrast, the Euro-skeptic Times of London speculated that the collective action might, in fact, represent a further avoidance of individual responsibility, and worried about the possible "renomination" of the entire commission (an idea floated by Santer Tuesday): "This supposedly cathartic drama could end up as a 'Japanese' purge, in which heads roll only to ensure that things continue much as before, with much the same discredited cast.

  • Such a "point," once made, could not resist the tendency to instill feelings of "envy" and ressentiment on the part of an author perhaps better compensated and perhaps more "popular," but in the view of the critical intelligence--if any such fitful and discredited light may still be conceived as being within our sphere--not really as good as mine.

  • They don't care whether House Republicans feel "ignored," "brushed off," or "discredited."


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