单词 | discredited |
释义 | discreditedadj. Brought into discredit or disrepute; that has lost credit or credibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute unhonesta1382 ill-famed1483 scoury?a1513 renownless1552 uncredited1586 bankrupt1601 discredited1605 disopinioned1622 creditless1660 unreputable1688 irreputable1709 low-lifed?1750 louche1819 characterless1825 disreputable1828 pikey1838 shady1862 lowlife1939 sleazoid1976 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Eee3v A suspected and discredited witnesse. View more context for this quotation 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 113 If the Factor do sell another mans commoditie to a man discredited..and it falleth out that this man breaketh [etc.]. 1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. v. 203 Obsolete errours are sometimes revived as well as discredited Truths. 1735 R. Newton Grounds Complaint of Principal of Hart-Hall xiii. 61 The Discredited or Suspected Panegyrists. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 56 The discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud. View more context for this quotation 1830 W. Godwin Cloudesley III. iii. 76 That most miserable of all characters, a discredited pretender. 1887 Spectator 29 Oct. 1456/2 Natural theology, he says, has become a discredited science. 1953 W. F. Shepard Price Control & Reign of Terror vii. 68 The committee probably hoped to minimize the possibility that discredited Jacobins might take advantage of popular unrest to regain their lost position. 2010 J. Kelly Death Watch xi. 107 His guilt didn't necessarily mean his father and George Valentine hadn't twisted, or planted, the discredited evidence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1605 |
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