as in notorious
not respectable
the discreditable conduct of drunken college students celebrating a win by their team
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Recent Examples of discreditable
Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024
Now, the previous autobiographical snippet, like those of the other three men, may have omitted certain discreditable matters.
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Botanists have been amenable to renaming species that carry the names of discredited and discreditable individuals; a vote on changes to the naming code is scheduled for a botanical congress next summer.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
Even if that's true, his role is discreditable.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 10 Sep. 2021
Nevertheless, before looking at the technique’s long, discreditable history, we should be reminded that true socialism is defined as a belief that the means of production should be publicly, not privately, owned.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2021
What is important is that the public has seen enough brutality by police to believe all sorts of discreditable tales about them, and the reputation of the force suffers accordingly.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
The desire for it is not necessarily wrong or discreditable.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 July 2019
This is an old pattern and a discreditable (and discredited) one.
—Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 25 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discreditable
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In Bucha, a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of a notorious massacre, residents worried that they had been abandoned.—
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Perkins did, however, take inspiration from one of the most notorious unsolved murder cases in history: the death of JonBenét Ramsey.—
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The water on one side of the beach and the Pacific Coast Highway on the other help impede fire spread, but strong gusts—like last month’s infamous Santa Ana winds—can still toss embers and flaming debris across the highway.—
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On Saturday evening, Chanel once again co-hosted a glamorous evening with Charles Finch at the infamous and lavish Mayfair club 5 Hertford Street.—
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Though, with the man known as Kingpin, his political aspirations are likely just an extension of those shady dealings.—
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What shady business is Timothy up to, and why was he so rattled by that phone call from the Wall Street Journal reporter asking questions about a former colleague in Brunei?—
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Then there’s the fact that SMS verification codes are also often at the very heart of many criminal operations.—
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Startled awake in present-day Los Angeles, Ted begins his morning at the offices of Black Lane, a law firm he and his friend, criminal defense attorney Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt), launched more than a decade ago.—
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Even though the Hamas charter directly calls for the murder of all Jews, all people must speak out against the immoral proposal to force an entire population into exile.—
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The Mann Act criminalizes transporting people across state lines for immoral purposes.—
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That accounts for the disgraceful smearing of Anthony Fauci, the nation’s most distinguished epidemiological expert until his retirement from the NIH in 2023, by Republicans who absurdly tried to blame him for creating COVID-19.—
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What kids are wearing to school these days would have been disgraceful in my day.—
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Our first contender for most shameful red card of the day is Milan full-back Theo Hernandez, who hit the deck after non-existent contact — and that’s being kind — from Feyenoord’s Givairo Read (above).—
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Though when has a shameful past ever stopped anyone getting elected in the United States?—
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Bracey will play Inspector Henry Boxer, the new authority in town with eyes for a lady, Sims will be Uncle Dickie, the Governor’s charming and disreputable older brother, with Burgess to play his handsome aide Phineas Golden.—
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Ka possessed the superpower of making this all feel lovely — in spite of a 2016 New York Post hit piece that tried to frame his music as a disreputable extension of his job with the FDNY, rather than an incredible twin enrichment of New York.—
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“Discreditable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discreditable. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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