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
By the way, the search for waste, fraud and abuse — call it WFA — has a long and discreditable history.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discreditable
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He was taken to the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, before being transferred to a facility with better conditions in April.—
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Torrez, though, was also linked by DNA to the notorious stabbing deaths of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and her friend 9-year-old Krystal Tobias in Zion on Mother’s Day in 2005.—
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Trending Stories On Wednesday morning, a forensic video expert told jurors that the infamous hotel surveillance video showing Combs slamming Ventura to the ground and kicking and dragging her in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in 2016 was not manually doctored.—
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Some military commentators compared it to another infamous Sunday surprise—Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.—
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Patti LuPone had a shady reaction to questions about Audra McDonald in a new interview.—
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Simple Deluxe 9-foot Patio Umbrella and 50-pound Base Add a shady spot to your sunny patio space with this nine-foot umbrella that comes with a base that can be filled with up to 50 pounds of sand or water.—
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With his former defense attorneys now working for the government, Trump earlier this year tapped the elite Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell to handle his criminal appeal.—
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Local business owners are complaining about threats and extortion from criminal groups in Morelos.—
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Kudos to Bruce Springsteen for practicing his First Amendment rights to rail against the corrupt policies and immoral actions of the Trump administration.—
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Independent jurors can blunt the force of immoral laws and arbitrary prosecutions by refusing to subject their neighbors to unjust laws or overtly cruel punishment.—
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What has changed, however, is the wild echo chamber within the modern media ecosystem, which, through clips shared millions of times on social platforms, transforms a marginal call into a ‘disgraceful error’ costing millions.—
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But many environmental activists, even some who are fans of nuclear, believe running roughshod over Indigenous nations and public lands is disgraceful.—
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From the classic and shameful Hello Pervert campaign, attacks against Gmail users that claim their account is, oh the irony, being attacked by a hacker, and even concerns over President Trump’s tariff plans, all are employed in this way.—
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Self-awareness—the kind cultivated by the digital panopticon and a consumerist culture that constantly directs our attention toward ourselves and our choices—tells us that there is something shameful about the epic scale.—
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The characters in Thunderbolts* (asterisk theirs) are all minor foes and disreputable allies who’ve turned up over the last few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.—
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Even in an industry with a disreputable history, the deals raised alarm among veteran executives.—
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“Discreditable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discreditable. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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