"the discrediting of" is a valid phrase in written English.
For example, "The discrediting of the mayor's reputation was a public relations disaster."
A side effect was the discrediting of candor about unpleasant truths and the enshrinement of "optimism".
That's because his sympathies lay somewhere else altogether: in the discrediting of sympathy.
But even with the discrediting of some of the accusers, campaigners say there remain some loose ends.
Labor unions in some countries have hoped that the discrediting of corporate executives might work to their benefit.
The immediate aftermath of the Hutton Report was not the discrediting of the Government, but the resignation of the BBC's chairman and director-general.
The brutal implementation of this policy by the authoritarian Qin dynasty led to that dynasty's overthrow and the discrediting of Legalist philosophy in China.
His right flank may secretly welcome the discrediting of the man whose reciprocal ideas for a Palestinian state threaten the settlement project and the consolidation of Greater Israel.
Much pornography also focused on the misdeeds of royals and aristocrats, thereby contributing to the discrediting of the elites of Europe.
