Example sentences for: discrediting

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

  • Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].

  • Democratic senators blamed Starr for discrediting the law by injecting politics into his investigations.

  • Her example would not only retrospectively discredit Jones and Willey, it would protect Clinton by prospectively discrediting any women who might come forward in the future.

  • It's not so different from the old way of discrediting evidence of black poverty or segregation by saying, "look, blacks in Cadillacs."

  • 2) We're delighted that these school shootings are discrediting the National Rifle Association.


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