Word: discreditable
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...board of seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
Unethical practices like these can only lower the prestige of a department which can little afford additional discredit. Edward Sachar...
...practice by withholding legitimate news from the U.N. correspondents. As for the drinking charge, some U.N. newsmen had occasionally passed flasks around in the cold of Panmunjom, but "whooping it up" was hardly the right description. The net effect of the Army's ill-considered blast was to discredit the free world's press in the eyes of its own readers, and to provide grist for the Communist propaganda mill. Cried the Peking radio next day: "The Iron Curtain rang down with a clang today, and was marked 'Made in Tokyo...
...difficulty, and have pointed out by way of introduction that the mere appearance of a person's name in the series does not make him or her a subversive. However, this can hardly be effective at a time when the smallest suspicion of Communist taint is enough to seriously discredit a person...
...keeping Savitt ranked right where he was, at No. 3. Cried Shields: "Never once in the past three months has Savitt looked like a champion. Not only that, but he was not the most cooperative player in the world while we were in Australia, and his sounding off brought discredit to the game. He was not a credit either as a player or a representative of America...