reflect on sb/sth
— phrasal verb with reflect uk/rɪˈflekt/us/rɪˈflekt/verb
to affect other people's opinion of someone or something, especially in a bad way:
When one player behaves disgracefully, it reflects (badly) on the whole team.
The whole affair does not reflect well on the government.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- dishonour
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- in the doghouse idiom
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- peg
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