discreditableadj.

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.

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.

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’.