discreditably
- a word derived from discreditable.
Example Sentences
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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 Chickering, Charles R.
The Ministers have on the whole come out of them discreditably.
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Greville, Charles
Lucian went slowly, but not discreditably, up the school, gaining prizes now and again, and falling in love more and more with useless reading and unlikely knowledge.
From The Hill of Dreams by Machen, Arthur
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 Gwatkin, Henry Melvill
It would come with all the shock of a fresh scandal if by their subsequent acts they revived the talk which had coupled their names already, and still reflected discreditably on the girl.
From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills
