His marks were not at all discreditable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Whether creditable or discreditable, that is the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Three Guineas] Reference
It might be called discreditable enough to move any self-respecting people to shame. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
And, sir, is that spirit to be charged here, in this hall where we are sitting, as being "discreditable" to our country's name?. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
"discreditable" for women to take any interest or any part in political affairs?. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
Papers are discreditable to the memory of this nobleman. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Occasionally his after-judgment is equally discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
For this discreditable state of things there are several causes. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
It is not a credit to do right, but wrongdoing is discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
All in all, the showing would be by no means a discreditable one. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Galen mentions the discreditable conduct of physicians at consultations. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
These discreditable exhibitions were rather frequent in Rome in his time. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
A whole discreditable past seemed to emerge from that one word "raddled.". From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
And yet the act was not so discreditable to his character as it may sound. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
The records teem with evidence condemning the whole discreditable business. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Think it discreditable to look with proper attention on one's self in the glass!. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
"Quandary," the word was unfamiliar to him; it must mean something awfully discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The Behring Sea negotiations have from the first been discreditable to diplomacy at Washington. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
A most discreditable act -- a criminal act -- has been committed since we last met in this hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Mine reads: Continued involvement of a discreditable nature with civilian and military authorities. From Wordnik.com. [The Solution to All My Problems] Reference
But here was a shrewd little lady who seemed to think his fancy and confidence nothing discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Such a result would be discreditable to our financial management and disastrous to all business interests. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The packers 'much heralded Stefansson stunt of living a year on an exclusive meat diet was a discreditable fake. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
It is a provision disgraceful to the statute book of the State, and discreditable to the civilization of the age. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The last weeks of Federalist rule was filled with a discreditable effort to save what was possible from the wreck. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
A poet who did not carry in his heart the courage of his song -- what could be more discreditable to poetry than that?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
That the 'Century' contains much which would be very discreditable to any man of science at the present day, is very true. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Nevertheless, it is most discreditable to us as a people, and it may be fraught with the gravest consequences to the nation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
There was nothing, therefore, dark or discreditable, at any rate, to be found attaching either to his home or to his own youth. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
If a statutory marriage by the registrar is not looked upon as discreditable -- and why should it be so, since the law enacts it?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
His campaign manager, Stephen B. Elkins, had been charged with a discreditable connection with the star-route scandals; men of the. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Frenchmen, the late Panama scandals have profoundly shocked and disgusted him, as revealing a state of things discreditable to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Knowing from the talk of the club what the lower orders are, could I doubt that this was some discreditable love affair of William's?. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
O'Connor has played several very shabby tricks on you and on the Guardian -- things that must, even in his own eyes, seem discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
I thought it very noble thus to protest against anything discreditable in himself personally being used against the honor of his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Van Buren's desire to be scrupulously fair in his estimates is evident, and if he did not always succeed, his failures are not discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
The lynching at New Orleans in March last of eleven men of Italian nativity by a mob of citizens was a most deplorable and discreditable incident. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Ah! she was a strange little woman with the foolish Gaelic notion that an affection bluntly displayed to its object is an affection discreditable. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
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