Word: discreditable
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...country of dissenters. Of the 2 million people currently imprisoned in the Soviet penal system, about 10,000 are so-called prisoners of conscience, who have been jailed for their religious, intellectual or political beliefs. In the past year the KGB has employed increasingly sophisticated methods to discredit dissidents; Jewish activists have been charged with speculation and other economic crimes in order to whip up local anti-Semitic feelings...
...outside, the Philbys of this world are still at large, observing us from afar, listening to us through brick walls, photographing us with lenses that pierce the night, recruiting the next crop of fellow travellers even as they discredit the old, detonating their minds with new lies." Underneath this language: Tick . . .Tick . . . Tick . . -Michael Demarest
...19th centuries. Published a year ago to rave reviews, the 834-page novel stayed on the bestseller lists for 28 weeks and sold more than 125,000 hard-cover copies. Producer David Wolper bought television rights and is preparing a miniseries. But now Indians have launched a campaign to discredit Hill and her book and to kill the TV project...
Commoner's strategy at the moment attempts to discredit Anderson in the eyes of liberal voters--he goes out of his way to point out Anderson's inconsistencies and the conservatism of his voting record...
...September of 1971 Howard Hunt approached me on the next Ellsberg neutralization proposal. Ellsberg was scheduled to speak at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, and Chuck Colson [special counsel to the President] thought it an opportunity to discredit him. Could we drug Ellsberg enough to befuddle him, make him appear a near burnt-out drug case...