discredible

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adjective

discreditable; bringing discredit; shameful

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivediscredible (comparative more discredible, superlative most discredible)

comparative more discredible · superlative most discredible

  1. 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 Magazine
    1 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

Origin

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APA

discredible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discredible

MLA

“discredible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discredible. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discredible,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discredible.

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