0 present participle of discredit
1 to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person:
The church would only regain the influence it had enjoyed in previous ages, they felt, if it cut its discrediting links to the state.
In the vari-directional case, the speaker voices the style with the intention of discrediting it (that is, parodies it).
All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one.
The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias.
Discrediting traditional ritual practice is a common feature of new religious movements.
This discrediting of their ideological bases comes precisely when they begin to operate as legal political par ties.
Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
The discrediting aspects of stigma were operationally defined as being thought less of by other people.
