0 past simple and past participle of discredit
1 to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person:
The rest (and they are many) are either discredited or dismissed.
With the regime's popularity and legitimacy discredited by these events, it sought ways to find a new source of legitimacy.
An example maybe of evolutionary over-engineering, it is reminiscent of the discredited thesis that phylogeny necessarily recapitulates ontogeny.
Late pregnancy and an illegitimate child are more difficult to conceal and therefore more likely to result in a 'discredited' situation.
The final eclipse of "proletarian race hygiene" came when the notion that acquired traits could be inherited was discredited in biology.
Coming on the heels of a discredited regime, reconstructive presidents re105.
When it comes to architectural theory, historicism in the strict philosophical sense is surely largely discredited.
To put it differently, the moral of the small-state realism remained when small-state realism itself was discredited.
