Word: discreditable
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...Military. Defense Attorney Brown argued to the jury (two colonels, three captains and two lieutenants, six of them Viet Nam veterans) that the trial was an attempt to discredit the Army itself. "I don't like to see the prosecution of any young man sent to fight for his country. I don't like what is happening in this country today. Some elements are trying to undermine and destroy the military of this country. They'd love to gut the military because when you gut the military, you destroy a country. Every time you turned around, some...
...Algiers such a masterpiece. But he partially redeems himself with a typical Pontecorvian touch, transforming Evaristo Marquez, an illiterate cane cutter, into an astonishingly effective actor. The growth of Marquez as a leader, his tortuous grappling with the idea of freedom, are poignant and wholly believable. It is no discredit to Marquez that his raw canebrake emotions have been exploited for superficial political diatribe...
...election has been confused by the efforts of students trying to discredit the CRR by waging a write-in campaign for Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the faculty and now a resident of Quincy House...
...extremely amusing to me to listen to those who try to discredit Vice President Agnew. They are fighting a losing battle. You see, he wields an indestructible weapon-the truth...
...accused the press of using the bombing in an "attempt to discredit student radicals, to depict them as a lunatic fringe of irresponsible terrorists...