Example sentences for: discrediting

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

  • In fact, many manufacturers use this kind of wording as a polite way of discrediting their rivals.

  • It also includes a chatty paragraph discrediting allegations about Lewinsky's alleged affair with Clinton.

  • His life was devoted to challenging and discrediting collectivism.

  • He calls Eastwood "one of the great ironists of the age" and a "postmodern" hero: "Clint's gift," he writes, forever on a first-name basis with his subject, "is to let us see the dark comedy in the American male's contorting, distorting attempts to achieve his masteries of the moment while at the same time not entirely discrediting the tradition that makes him bid that effort."

  • 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].


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