be under a cloud
to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad:
The cabinet minister left office under a cloud after a fraud scandal.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degradation
- degrade
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- grubby
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- lower your sights idiom
- peg
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