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DISCREDITABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does discreditable mean?
• DISCREDITABLE (adjective)
The adjective DISCREDITABLE has 1 sense:
1. tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy
Familiarity information: DISCREDITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy
Context example:
his marks were not at all discreditable
Similar:
disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)
Context examples
I am glad it occurred to me to mention it; for it would really be discreditable to you to let them go alone.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was a discreditable business.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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