Word: discreditable
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...nagging problems of internal strife may not be resolved so easily. At a gathering of local editors in Harare last week, the Prime Minister hinted that he might impose even tighter restrictions on foreign journalists, whom he charged with a campaign to discredit his government. "It is far from being as ugly as they portray it," he said. "Zimbabwe will never die because the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Times of London and the New York Times continue to report unfavorably about us. We continue to make progress and to use whatever means are within our boundaries to survive...
...process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...
These tactics are not illegal; in fact, within the framework of legal proceedings they are not unusual. Similar attempts to discredit the prosecution are prevalent in other types of criminal trials...
...letter attempts to discredit Harvard Faculty through invective and innuendo ("...force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism"), and meaningless Double-speak ("Harvard...must also be made a home of open discussion instead of an oasis of utopian radicalism) without providing substantive evidence in support of the allegations...
...year-old victim also admitted that she had illegally received welfare benefits for three years, testimony which defense lawyers seized upon to discredit the woman...