discredible

adj

discredible

adj

Etymology From dis- + credible.

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:
  • 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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