discredited

English

Adjective

discredited (comparative more discredited, superlative most discredited)

1. Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.
   • 1995, Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition, page 127:

     A reputedly valiant but discredited warrior is speared to death by killers in the service of another warrior, who is also reputedly valiant but even more discredited: it is a false denouement for a false tragedy .

   • 2009, Scott Franz, Loon Moments, page 28:

     I will tell you though, that as a scientific theory, "Darwinism" is probably THE most discredited theory ever put forth by ANY scientist at ANY time in the history of mankind; and why it is so desperately hung onto, and clung to by educators and scientists the way it is, well it's way beyond me.

   • 2013, Simone Judith Buechler, Labor in a Globalizing City, page 68:

     Antonia, a day-care center owner in Jardim Sudoeste, said, "Honestly, not just for myself, but for many others, the politician is very discredited. I feel like I have no father or mother.”

   • 2024, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox:

     Films perpetuate completely discredited historical theories about events (director Oliver Stone based his film JFK on a discredited report on the Kennedy assassination; see Section 13.6).

Derived terms

• undiscredited

 

Verb

discredited

1. simple past and past participle of discredit