But our friend the parson was discreditably shabby. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
He had tried one employment after another, and had discreditably failed in all. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
But he was docile, he was persevering, and passed through the school, and afterwards the college, not discreditably. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
They respect their own haríms, yet this is the second time I am mentioned discreditably in their public correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
The Commander-in-Chief reported to the Secretary of War that Casey's division "gave way unaccountably and discreditably.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
This is an impressive turn for the B'nai Brith, which has in the past dabbled discreditably in the human rights complaints business. From Wordnik.com. [Ezra Levant: February 2008 Archives] Reference
I rejoice when my books do well, and perhaps discreditably rejoice even more when an author's figures improve after I start editing him or her. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
Among the best of them is that on the Honourable James Craggs, a secretary of state, rather discreditably mixed up with the South Sea Bubble: —. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
In his warlike policy, the prophet's strategy reflects most discreditably upon his character, everything that was honourable and virtuous being sacrificed to the passion for conquest. From Wordnik.com. [Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam] Reference
He even published a retort, which was discreditably abusive. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln]
It's difficult to say who has behaved more discreditably in the. From Wordnik.com. [Politics :: The Atlantic] Reference
The Ministers have on the whole come out of them discreditably. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
They respect their own haríms, yet this is the second time I am mentioned discreditably in their public. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
An impulse to avoid danger at all hazards: i. e., to run away, and save yourself, however discreditably. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Clearly he thought you'd find it pertinent; that's why he discreditably withheld it, lest you reject him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bilerico Project] Reference
I do not say that this expulsion reflects in any sense discreditably upon him as a man of honour, but it closed his. From Wordnik.com. [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference
He fought at Bosworth, not discreditably; and a year afterward, when England had for the most part accepted Henry VII. From Wordnik.com. [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference
"Master Roscoe," said Mr. Crabb, with a pained look, "I hope you have not started so discreditably in your school life.". From Wordnik.com. [Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute] Reference
Most of all he grieved to think that a delegate of his ward, largely through his own interference, was acting discreditably. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
Because, he says, "clearly he thought you'd find it pertinent; that's why he discreditably withheld it, lest you reject him.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bilerico Project] Reference
He was born in 1583, and finished his life ingloriously, and indeed discreditably, during the troubles of the civil war, on the 20th of August 1648. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
They had revealed to the world at large the generally prevalent ignorance of Shakespeare and his works which so discreditably distinguished his countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
The Eusebians had behaved discreditably enough, but they had at least frustrated the council, and secured a recognition of their creed from a large body of. From Wordnik.com. [The Arian Controversy] Reference
She says she used to know you, and, on one occasion, attempted to speak discreditably of you; though I quickly gave her to understand that I would not listen to it. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
Lucian went slowly, but not discreditably, up the school, gaining prizes now and again, and falling in love more and more with useless reading and unlikely knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Hill of Dreams] Reference
Our expectation, so I think, is in the slowly mounting level of the vast bourgeois literature that fills not excellently, but certainly not discreditably, our books and magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
The importance of Vado Bay, so discreditably lost the year before, strikes him from this point of view, as it did also Bonaparte from his more closely coherent plan of operations. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference
The Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Washington, a singularly energetic and far-seeing organization, itself published the report which Congress had thus discreditably refused to publish. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
The Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Washington, a singularly energetic and far-seeing organization, it self published the report which Congress had thus discreditably refused to publish. From Wordnik.com. [XI. The Natural Resources of the Nation] Reference
So he stood the trial discreditably and was defeated .... ". From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
A battle had been discreditably lost by "keeping the line.". From Wordnik.com. [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2] Reference
“What is there disgraceful, to your thinking, in your having set aside half of the three thousand you had discreditably, if you prefer. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
“What is there disgraceful, to your thinking, in your having set aside half of the three thousand you had discreditably, if you prefer, ‘disgracefully,’ appropriated?. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Santa Claus at a discreditably early age. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
There the Gibbelins lived and discreditably fed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Wonder] Reference
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