Word: discrediting
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...Japan's golden age of political assassination, the cause way to discredit an opponent was to take gun in Ford land shoot him. A miss was as good as a bull's-eye, for such was the popular temper that any attack created a presumption against the victim. To have inspired such a desperate attempt was held the surest proof that a politician had lost the confidence of the people...
...lion's share of the discredit belongs to director George Sherman, who not only kept the actors from getting off more than two sentences per minute, but also chose the cast in the first place. Nor should Gerald Drayson Adams escape lightly. We may only hope that this stilted and faltering script will be his last. Hans J. Salter's grating and ill-timed music only serves to make the tedium unbearable. The costumes are absolutely ludicrous...
Columbia University announced that it would "not even consider" admitting transfers. The University of Virginia wanted no one who had been "dropped or suspended from another college." Neither did Washington and Lee. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania State College was waiting to see "whether the Academy indicated 'discredit or dishonor' on the transcript" before making up its mind...
Acheson's plea to the joint committee was that the paper should not now be published because "the U.S.S.R. could use it to discredit the information program...
...mayor, firing back from the depths of the American embassy in Mexico City, cried that the committee's conclusions were "fantastic." Said he: "For reasons unknown to me, a concerted effort has been made, by inference and innuendo, to discredit me on a personal basis. Of this I have no fear. My public life is a matter of record . . . My achievements were hailed on all sides...