discreditable
adjective
bringing or liable to bring discredit.
discreditably
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a word derived from
discreditable.
Example Sentences
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The Eusebians had behaved discreditably enough, but they had at least frustrated the council, and secured a recognition of their creed from a large body of Eastern conservatives.
From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin
The Commander-in-Chief reported to the Secretary of War that Casey's division "gave way unaccountably and discreditably."
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. Stevens
In others the facts are never divulged, because the victims prefer to suffer loss rather than have their names dragged into a publicity which, to say the least, would reflect on them discreditably.
From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by William F. Howe
An impulse to avoid danger at all hazards: i. e., to run away, and save yourself, however discreditably.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
I fear by what you say, “Flossy jun.” behaves discreditably, and gets his mistress into scrapes.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter
