We can only look upon it as a discreditable subterfuge, to which this court ought not to lend its countenance.
It seemed like a discreditable form of "realism", but one practised by Catholic leaders in other parts of eastern Europe.
In the House of Lords, the former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown described it as "a discreditable policy" and warned that it might be illegal under international maritime laws.
Until the issue of sentencing is tackled – particularly addressing those short sentences that so often lead to re-offending – Britain's prisons will remain overcrowded, a discreditable merry-go-round of recidivism, wasted money and blighted lives.
She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent, and was fearful of the consequences, especially if, in retaliation, Mary's son James formed an alliance with the Catholic powers and invaded England.
A discreditable person is someone whose stigma has not yet been revealed, and may try to conceal it.
Were you to reject all Jews or African-Americans or Canadians, you would show discreditable bias — anti-Semitism or racism or some weird anti-commonwealth hostility.
They reflect the dangerous and discreditable influence of Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor whose study purporting to show a relationship between the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine and autism has been exposed as a fraud.
In the Vienna of the 1790s, music had become more and more the favourite pastime of a cultured aristocracy, for whom politics under the reactionary emperor Francis II were now discreditable and dangerous and who had, moreover, never shown a like appreciation of any of the other fine arts.
Help seeking at HIV clinics or ASOs therefore becomes a threat to the ability to balance disclosure and manage a complex discreditable identity among heterosexual men living with HIV.
In March 1995, only months before his death, he tells a story as if it was discreditable to Cyril Connolly when actually it is Auden who is shown in a bad light (it's to do with the appropriation of a valuable book).
