Word: discreditment
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...miserable attendance for the Boston run of Mid-Summer is probably the fault of equally miserable weather. Any other explanation reflects discredit on local theater lovers, because it is a fine comedy...
First, any member of the teaching profession who claims the privilege when teachers are the subject of investigation tends to cast discredit on the profession as a whole. Even when he has a clear legal right to refuse to testify, a teacher should weigh against his own self-protection his colleagues to help uphold the standing of his and their profession...
...private compulsion. The man who is discharged for his refusal to testify in such cases, whether innocent or not, is willing to appear guilty. His discharge helps to protect the rest of the profession, most of whom are innocent and willing to say so, from the otherwise inevitable discredit by association...
...suprised," Allende said yesterday, "Peron would go to any lengths to discredit...
...part, goes to the other extreme. Bug-eyed over details--costs, inefficiency, and the like--Republicans do not see the large issues. More and more they have become minor demagogues, bellowing now about socialism, now about graft, leaving nothing undone to discredit the social and foreign gains wrought by twenty years of liberalism. Theirs is a policy of opposition at any cost, and although if in power they would change little, they have adopted the most negative sort of conservatism...