| 单词 |
discreditable |
| 释义 |
discreditable, a.|dɪsˈkrɛdɪtəb(ə)l|
[f. dis- 10 + creditable: after discredit n. and v.]
The reverse of creditable; such as to bring discredit; injurious to reputation; disreputable, disgraceful.
1640R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 250 Eishu [eschew] that discreditable stroke. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. iii. iv. Wks. 1811 III. 132 He contends..for God's having a human form: No discreditable notion, at that time in the Church. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. v. (1869) I. 46 They would be precluded..from this discreditable method. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 151 Employing in self-defence artifices as discreditable as those which had been used against him. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 290 A discreditable effort to fasten upon him a charge of high treason.
Hence discreditaˈbility, the quality of being discreditable, disreputableness; disˈcreditably adv., in a discreditable manner, disreputably.
1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. vi. ii. §32 Many names, which might have ranked not discreditably by the side of these tragedians. 1888A. J. Balfour in Daily News 17 May 6/3 The meanness and the discreditability of such a proceeding. 1891Law Times XCI. 1/2 Work in both Chancery and Divorce is discreditably in arrear. |
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