单词 | discreditable |
释义 | discreditableadj. Such as to bring discredit; injurious to reputation; disreputable, disgraceful. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [adjective] undignec1315 unhonestc1450 reproachable1477 unhonourable1540 discredible1575 discreditable1577 defacing1583 reprobate1589 reproachful1591 scandalous1592 uncreditable1649 notorious1666 unworthy1693 discrediting1699 increditable1703 disreputable1773 compromising1883 1577 T. Newton tr. Cicero Fowre Severall Treat. f. 28 Some manye times in a small paultringe monye matter, are perceyued, howe discreditable and vnconstant they bee [L. quam sint leves]. 1640 R. Baillie Let. Sept. (1841) I. 250 Eishu [= eschew] that discreditable stroke. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 385 I shold never have lapsed into such an indiscreet foule discreditable Miscarriage. 1742 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 3) I. iii. iv. 408 He contends strongly for God's having a human Form: No discreditable Notion, at that time, in the Church. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. v. 53 They would be precluded..from this discreditable method. View more context for this quotation 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 151 Employing in self-defence artifices as discreditable as those which had been used against him. 1889 Times 8 Apr. 9/1 A mischievous demagogue who has acquired an unwholesome popularity by discreditable methods. 1920 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 48/1 (caption) The internal strength of this block was badly fitted; each of the screws had split the wood; the work was altogether discreditable. 1980 Jrnl. Legal Stud. 9 643 The extortion of payments from a person by threatening to disclose discreditable facts concerning him is illegal in most western countries. 2011 J. R. Arnold Moro War iii. 38 The incident proved a discreditable massacre. Derivatives discreditaˈbility n. the quality of being discreditable, disreputableness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > quality of being discreditable reproachfulness1548 uncreditableness1667 discreditability1847 disreputability1854 1847 Daily Advertiser 19 June 4/3 Although he might have touched its discreditability with a larger and firmer hand, he deserves no small praise for having done so at all. 1888 A. J. Balfour in Daily News 17 May 6/3 The meanness and the discreditability of such a proceeding. 1973 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 1 426 He was thus led..into personnel practices whose discreditability Dr. Guhin's silence cannot hide. 2011 P. L. Hammack Narr. & Politics of Identity vii. 320 Laila identifies the source of her identity confusion as rooted in the discreditability of her Arab identity within Israel. disˈcreditably adv. in a discreditable manner, disreputably. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [adverb] unhonestlyc1384 out of lose1513 unhonourably1553 discreditably1725 disreputably1775 compromisingly1888 1725 T. Dyche Spelling Dict. (ed. 2) Discreditably. 1770 J. Fairly Humble Attempt Def. Reformation Princ. v. 72 I know of none, that have treated the law of nature and divine revelation so discreditably and unworthily,..as Mr Goodlet and his brethren have done. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vi. 380 Many names, which might have ranked not discreditably by the side of these tragedians. 1935 M. Moore Let. 20 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 357 My interest in Spain is, I fear, discreditably unstudious. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Dec. a3 The Senate ethics committee admonished Craig for his behavior, calling it ‘improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1577 |
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