discreditable
adjective
bringing or liable to bring discredit.
discreditably
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a word derived from
discreditable.
Example Sentences
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Most of all he grieved to think that a delegate of his ward, largely through his own interference, was acting discreditably.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford
Little Ally Dockett sometimes takes a hand, if need be, and acquits herself not discreditably; but sixteen rushes in where two-and-thirty fears to tread.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Washington, a singularly energetic and far-seeing organization, itself published the report which Congress had thus discreditably refused to publish.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
"Louisbourg was not taken by THEM, but fell through the mutiny of the base Swiss!" replied Bigot, touched sharply by any allusion to that fortress where he had figured so discreditably.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
If she removed all the furniture but the bed and the bureau and left the governess nothing to sit down on, it would only reflect discreditably upon the family's supply of household goods.
From The Governess by Charles R. Chickering
