Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a discreditable manner.
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- adverb In a
discreditable manner
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- adverb in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree
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Examples
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I rejoice when my books do well, and perhaps discreditably rejoice even more when an author's figures improve after I start editing him or her.
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But the pernicious legacy of the Great Chain of Being also feeds the challenge ‘Where are the intermediates between major animal groups?’ and, nearly as discreditably, underlies the tendency of evolutionists to answer such a challenge by trotting out particular fossils, such as Archaeopteryx, the celebrated ‘intermediate between reptiles and birds’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But the pernicious legacy of the Great Chain of Being also feeds the challenge ‘Where are the intermediates between major animal groups?’ and, nearly as discreditably, underlies the tendency of evolutionists to answer such a challenge by trotting out particular fossils, such as Archaeopteryx, the celebrated ‘intermediate between reptiles and birds’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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This is an impressive turn for the B'nai Brith, which has in the past dabbled discreditably in the human rights complaints business.
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This is an impressive turn for the B'nai Brith, which has in the past dabbled discreditably in the human rights complaints business.
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They respect their own haríms, yet this is the second time I am mentioned discreditably in their public correspondence.
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But our friend the parson was discreditably shabby.
Castle Richmond 2004
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He had tried one employment after another, and had discreditably failed in all.
No Name 2003
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The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness; but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness to the utmost, for he might often find it needful.
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Whether the old King could ever be brought to accept the new ways that Mordred could foresee, ways that had been embodied (though in the end discreditably) in the phrase "Young Celts," without seeing them as treachery, he could not guess.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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