Word: discreditable
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...than to fight the firm beliefs and emotions of an entire opposing faculty. But under all the circumstances the failure to bring harmony as Chancellor is no more a complete indictment of Dr. Kerr's ability than the failure of the peace overtures after his election was a discredit to Lincoln...
...ungenerous policy on the part of the military authorities, especially when the victims are advanced in years and of a class unused to the kind of work imposed on them, and that such ungenerous treatment must, when it becomes generally known at the end of the war, bring grave discredit on those responsible for it." They got their discharge...
...Eugene O. Sykes, are not, I affirm, those that bespeak for him the requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial...
...openly accused Mr. Mellon of using his knowledge of income tax machinery to defraud the Government whose servant he was. "It is quite clear," said old Mr. Mellon, "that in my case the Treasury is not so much interested in the collection of revenue as in attempting to discredit...
...possibly you can understand why I discredit TIME...