Antonyms for discredit
dɪsˈkrɛd ɪtdis·cred·it

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1. discreditverb

   Synonyms:
   tell against, invalidate, demean, disgrace, disprove, dishonour

2. discreditverb

   To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.

   Synonyms:
   demean, invalidate, disprove, dishonour, tell against, disgrace

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1. discredit

   Abase refers only to outward conditions. "Exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high." Ezek. xxi, 26. Debase applies to quality or character. The coinage is debased by excess of alloy, the man by vice. Humble in present use refers chiefly to feeling of heart; humiliate to outward conditions; even when one is said to humble himself, he either has or affects to have humility of heart. To disgrace may be to bring or inflict odium upon others, but the word is chiefly and increasingly applied to such moral odium as one by his own acts brings upon himself; the noun disgrace retains more of the passive sense than the verb; he disgraced himself by his conduct; he brought disgrace upon his family. To dishonor a person is to deprive him of honor that should or might be given. To discredit one is to injure his reputation, as for veracity or solvency. A sense of unworthiness humbles; a shameful insult humiliates; imprisonment for crime disgraces. Degrade may refer to either station or character. An officer is degraded by being reduced to the ranks, disgraced by cowardice; vile practises degrade; drunkenness is a degrading vice. Misfortune or injustice may abase the good; nothing but their own ill-doing can debase or disgrace them.

   Antonyms:
   advance, aggrandize, dignify, elevate, exalt, honor, promote, raise, uplift

   Synonyms:
   abase, bring low, cast down, debase, degrade, depress, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, lower, reduce, sink

Matched Categories

1. • Dismiss
   • Disparage
   • Reject

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1. disrepute, discreditverb

   the state of being held in low esteem

   "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"

   Synonyms:
   disrepute

2. discreditverb

   cause to be distrusted or disbelieved

   "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"

   Synonyms:
   disbelieve, disgrace

3. discredit, disgraceverb

   damage the reputation of

   "This newspaper story discredits the politicians"

   Synonyms:
   disgrace, put down, disbelieve, demean, attaint, dishonor, shame, dishonour, take down, degrade

4. disbelieve, discreditverb

   reject as false; refuse to accept

   Synonyms:
   disbelieve, disgrace

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1. discreditnoun

   Synonyms:
   disesteem, disrepute, unpopularity

How to use discredit in a sentence?

1. Salma Hayek:

   It was a strategy by the lawyers, because we are the easiest to get discredited. It is a well-known fact, if you are a woman of color, people believe what you say less. So he wentattacking the two women of color, in hopes that if he could discredit us, he could then maybe discredit the rest. the men are terrified.

2. Sarit Michaeli:

   A super-enormous battle is being waged for the future of our society, what we have here are many years of intense efforts to discredit Israel's human rights community, primarily related to our work exposing human rights violations.

3. Kamal Preet Singh Pannu:

   Hundreds of farmers will launch a tractor trolley march to New Delhi to voice our grievances against the new laws, government wants to discredit and crush our movement, but we will continue to protest peacefully.

4. Charles Thorson:

   The Islamic State’s attack likely had multiple objectives, including disrupting Charles Thorson at the airport and embarrassing The Taliban as The Taliban tries to distance The Taliban from terrorist groups and portray The Taliban as being capable of providing security throughout the country, the Islamic State attack also probably serves longer-term objectives of driving recruitment and reinvigorating the Islamic State’s image within the global jihadist community amid the group’s downfall in Iraq and Syria, Thorson added. ISIS-K isestimated to have between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters operating in Afghanistan and its ranks swelled with more fighters after prisoners were released when the Afghan government collapsed. Charles Thorson MILITARY ESCAPE FROM AFGHANISTAN : AIR FORCE CREWS DESCRIBE ‘ APOCALYPTIC ’ FINAL SCENES A main gripe of ISIS-K with The Taliban is the deal the group negotiated with United States in Doha. ISIS-K considers the The Taliban traitors for entering into talks with the United States and announced The Taliban intentions to undermine the deal by launching a war against the The Taliban and the U.S.-backed Afghan government. While The Taliban simultaneously waged an insurgency campaign against Afghan forces and negotiated with the U.S., ISIS-K conducted deadly terror attacks on Afghan civilians, an attempt to discredit the The Taliban and drive-up recruitment. The attack from ISIS-K also highlights the internal fissures within The Taliban that will likely grow more profound as The Taliban enter the governing phase of their takeover. The Taliban have, at least rhetorically, struck a more moderate and pragmatic tone from their previous iteration in power 20 years ago. While leadership and spokespersons have remained mild in tone, the The Taliban rank and file are filled with more extremist factions that will be more attracted to the radicalism that ISIS-K espouses. According to Thorson, such a structure is vulnerable to infiltration by more extreme organizations like The Islamic State. Although the The Taliban and Islamic State are enemies, defections from one group to another suggest there may be pockets of sympathy within each group for the other. After all, this is how ISIS-Kformed in 2015, when disaffected remnants of the Pakistani The Taliban and other Jihadist groups split and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The rupture led to a declaration of war on both sides.

5. Natalie Portman:

   Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or difficult, if a man says to you that a woman is crazy or difficult, ask him,' What bad thing did you do to her ?' That's a code word. He is trying to discredit her reputation.

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