discreditedadj.
/dɪˈskrɛdᵻtᵻd/, U.S. /dɪˈskrɛdədəd/ Brought into discredit or disrepute; that has lost credit or credibility.
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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).
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