discreditable
adjEtymology From discredit + -able.
1
Able to be discredited.
2
Low, mean, bringing discredit.
- Shortly after midnight a determined attempt was made to wreck a portion of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, by means of an explosive bomb. […] Copies of suffragette leaflets strewn about clearly indicate the purpose of this discreditable affair.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
- Derived terms
- discreditableness, discreditably