Word: discreditable
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...Barkley this was a high-handed, impetuous insult to the Democratic majority. Solemnly he rose at his front-row desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously...
...take his "evidence" to the East Berlin World Peace Council when the Swiss Federal Police moved in at the Zurich airfield, grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained "slanderous allegations" designed "to discredit the reputation of the International Red Cross in the eyes of the world." This kind of discrediting, said the government, "constitutes a grave attack on the policy of neutrality of Switzerland and compromises, in consequence, the security of the country." If a court of inquiry finds criminal intent is present, Professor Bonnard...
...cross examination. Rugo's attorney cast some discredit on Storey's testimony by proving with a photograph that the started time of arrest was wrong. The picture showed Rugo's arrest and a clock in the background...
Cuba's freewheeling democrats operated according to the rule, stated by a former Grau minister: "It's a credit to you if you're honest, but it's no great discredit if you're dishonest." Everybody helped himself. Senators who had spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...
Although these considerations deprive the Report of any claim to complete irrefutability-a claim which the Council does not make-only one with the gloomiest opinion of undergraduates' memories and abilities to appraise could totally discredit the Council's conclusions on these grounds...