Word: discreditment
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...ascribe other people's failure to personal weakness rather than circumstance, that he is at times obstinately legalistic and literal-minded, that he would decline an invitation to the Judgment Day if the date conflicted with that of his class reunion in June. But cynicism could seriously discredit him only if it discredited the loyalties that sustained-and may still sustain the American republic in its best days. They are vulnerable now. But not in the judge's house...
...British plan (if it could be called a plan) was to let Nahas Pasha's incompetent government discredit itself completely, whereupon the King, who dislikes Nahas, would fire him. Moderates would come to power and make a deal with the British. It didn't work out that way in Iran...
Persecutors Pass Away. Hatred of sin in itself, said Williams, is one of the true marks of a true Christian. The worldly and unregenerate "can only hate the damages and disgrace and discredit of it; and so may a whore hate whoredom. 'Tis only the property of God's children and the newborn to hate sin as sin, with the sinful appearance of it, as opposite to their new and heavenly nature in Jesus Christ...
...Atlantic Monthly article criticizing Buckley's charges of widespread "atheism" and "collectivism" at Yale, Bundy termed the book "dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author...
Instead of studying whatever solutions the Blanchard Report might offer, the Republicans are busy trying to discredit the Democrats and the Democrats are trying to cover up the report. Those with a consistent interest in the problem of Massachusetts industry, like the Business School's Professor Teele, have long since withdrawn from the fracas...