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was discrediting
verb
To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
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But he thought that McCarthy's crusade was discrediting the anti-Communist cause: "That the McCarthy movement normally accuses only non-Communists of 'Communism' is one of the main rules of the game," he complained in 1955.
Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the "undeserving rich", whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, a Catholic priest who is a founding member of the board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a professor of social ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, said the Vatican was "discrediting itself by associating itself with this kind of questionable scholarship".
Palazzo said she felt like the administrator was discrediting her concern based on one line of an email that simply noted she had experienced a similar situation.
26 34 Therefore, dissimilar perceptions of the origin of pain caused great frustration and a feeling that the healthcare professional was discrediting the reality of the pain.
The stigmatising nature of living with a fistula was discrediting and these women could not engage in gainful employment, as they believed that nobody would employ them because of their condition.
Similar(51)
Eventually, F.C. was discredited.
Democracy was discredited.
It was discredited and the paper retracted.
Unlike socialism, which was discredited by its failure, nationalism was discredited by its success.
That wing knew it was discredited.
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