Meanings
comparative more discredible · superlative most discredible
- discreditable; bringing discredit; shameful
Greater vigilance would certainly prevent these discredible descents. Occasionally however, his errors seem to be deliberate, and are owing not to want of care, but to perversion of taste […]
1813, Washington Irving, Analectic Magazine1 more example
These people preferred not to think of themselves as addicted or alcoholic, not because they weren't dependent on these substances but rather because of their unwillingness to adopt a discredible image of themselves as permanently sick.
1999, Robert Granfield, William Cloud, Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment, page 125
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