How do you use Discredited in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like damaged or disreputable, plus the exact meaning.
Discredited in a sentence
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Discredited meaning
Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.
Synonyms of Discredited
Using Discredited
- The main meaning on this page is: Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.
- Useful related words include: damaged, disreputable, disgraced, dishonored.
- In the example corpus, discredited often appears in combinations such as: the discredited, discredited by, been discredited.
Context around Discredited
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Discredited
- In this selection, "discredited" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thoroughly, same, widely, southern, voices and practice stand out and add context to how "discredited" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include already been discredited and that and fears later discredited that the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "discredited" sits close to words such as absorbs, arenas and asda, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with discredited
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Specifically choosing European writers so they would not be discredited. (10 words)
For many Palestinians, they offer an alternative to the discredited PA. (11 words)
This story, now widely discredited, played a pivotal role in justifying the invasion of Iraq. (15 words)
But there has been a steep rise in cases among adolescents and university students in recent years, mostly among those whose parents rejected the MMR jab for them as infants over fears – later discredited – that the vaccine was linked to autism. (41 words)
The lawsuit contends that California’s approach, known as the End of Life Option Act, harks back to the discredited practice of eugenics, which once sought to keep people with disabilities and other minority groups from reproducing. (37 words)
As autism is more often diagnosed in young male children it is likely that a cohort of now young men were not vaccinated due to parental decisions informed by this "erroneous science" which has since been discredited. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Concepts that seemed like they might be publishers’ next big money maker, like NFTs and live service games, have already been discredited and that really doesn’t leave anything but indie gaming.
For many Palestinians, they offer an alternative to the discredited PA.
For this, the G-men relied on the thoroughly discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, an outfit that raises big bucks by flogging lefty hysteria.
If you try to do that you will very quickly be found out and the scientists who tried to do it will be discredited.
Mr Gibbs said that: “With each allegation that’s discredited, the possibility, the reality, that false allegations, even apparently convincing false allegations, really do happen.
None of these outcomes are exaggerations, as much as some may try to argue (the same discredited voices who insisted that Trump would go quietly and not press for a coup after the 2020 election).
Specifically choosing European writers so they would not be discredited.
The bill aims to transfer wealth from Silicon Valley to the discredited and distrusted corporate legacy media.
The lawsuit contends that California’s approach, known as the End of Life Option Act, harks back to the discredited practice of eugenics, which once sought to keep people with disabilities and other minority groups from reproducing.
The only evidence that he intentionally misled the Commons is from the ‘discredited Dominic Cummings’, and that Cummings’ assertions are not ‘supported by any documentation’, Mr Johnson said.
The paper has since been discredited by health experts, retracted from the journal in which it was published, and its primary author, Andrew Wakefield, lost his medical licence.
This story, now widely discredited, played a pivotal role in justifying the invasion of Iraq.
Those who insist on the discredited theory of polygenesis believe in a plurality of races (that there are three, five, or eight) that existed in a hierarchy.
Amusing how the same pro-CCP/Kremlin voices (though often under changing usernames) are always present, repeating their oft-discredited nonsense.
As autism is more often diagnosed in young male children it is likely that a cohort of now young men were not vaccinated due to parental decisions informed by this "erroneous science" which has since been discredited.
But Belo has since had his reputation discredited, at least outside of East Timor, after the Vatican revealed in 2022 that he had been sanctioned for sexually abusing young boys.
But there has been a steep rise in cases among adolescents and university students in recent years, mostly among those whose parents rejected the MMR jab for them as infants over fears – later discredited – that the vaccine was linked to autism.
Congressional Republicans have championed Smirnov’s now-discredited allegations for roughly a year in their efforts to impeach President Biden, though not by name.
If the top flight was discredited, opposition to its dismantling would be diminished and the prospect of the secession of six or seven English clubs would be much more real.
It might not have been his intended goal, but Comer has actually excelled when it comes to calling witnesses who’ve discredited Republicans’ conspiracy theories.
Common combinations with discredited
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the discredited 19×
- discredited by 19×
- been discredited 18×
- discredited and 13×
- discredited the 9×
- was discredited 9×
- be discredited 7×
- and discredited 7×
- is discredited 6×
- widely discredited 5×