Sentence examples for discredit on from inspiring English sources

The phrase "discredit on" is not correct and cannot be used in written English
The phrases "discredit" and "discredit someone/something" are more appropriate. For example, "The dishonest behavior of the supervisor discredited him in the eyes of the other employees."

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"Petraeus on Tuesday called the 'serious mistake' he made one that 'brought discredit on me and pain to those closest to me.' He called the error a breach of trust and of 'the values to which I had been committed through my life.'".

This reflects no discredit on Burns.

Or whether he brought discredit on the House of Representatives?

Mr. Gingrich formally apologized, conceding he had brought discredit on the House.

And there is much in the asbestos debacle that does reflect discredit on private companies' actions.

The events of that morning do not reflect discredit on operational personnel.

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They have been exposed and discredited on many occasions.

The Green Party will not collaborate with the Liberal Democrats in any general election pacts, because Nick Clegg and his ministers have become so discredited on the environment, its leader said yesterday.

Freud's study has been discredited on many counts, the most profound being his theory that the "psychical genesis of homosexuality" lies in a boy's erotic attachment to a too-loving mother.

The reality, though, is that Republicans remain discredited on the presidential level by the failures of the Bush years, and winning back the White House will most likely require more recasting of the party's traditional message than winning back the House did.

That MI6 was silent initially in the face of dubious claims by a prime minister discredited on matters of intelligence, with waning powers of patronage and soon to depart the stage is a testament to the enduring power of the executive.

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