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out the sentence. She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent and was fearful of the consequences, especially if, in retaliation...

role in the Ballinger–Pinchot affair. When hearings led to nothing discreditable about Brandeis, Taft intervened with a letter signed by himself and...

“commercial rivals” of the United States would have been “bad business and discreditable,” and that the Filipinos “were unfit for self-government.” On October...

suspended and faced six charges under the Police Services Act, including discreditable conduct and insubordination. Her first court hearing was held over Zoom...

practicing before another regulatory body such as the SEC or the IRS. "Discreditable acts", which can include failure to follow applicable standards (such...

accepted that "most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means." Civil War historian James M. McPherson dedicates an entire chapter...

dictionary. A scandal is a strong social reaction to a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc. Scandal or The Scandal may also refer to:...

Holmes is not present, but Watson is, in a very different form. He acts discreditably and even marries another woman. The publication of this play was at...

somewhat obscured because his brother Harold removed what he considered discreditable passages in Owen's letters and diaries after the death of their mother...

recipient's name to be erased from the official register in certain wholly discreditable circumstances and his pension cancelled. Eight were forfeited between...

Manchester Guardian writing, "The Government has failed most frightfully and discreditably in the matter of munitions." Failures in both the East and the West...

public affairs are generally good-for-nothing men, with whom it is discreditable to be compared, and miserable and dangerous to contend, especially when...

confirm the usualness of another, and therefore is neither credible nor discreditable as a thing in itself." In Goffman's theory of social stigma, a stigma...

admonition to Craig, stating that his "improper conduct" reflected "discreditably" on the United States Senate. The Committee held that Craig had indeed...

any but the silliest of possible meanings into our statements is as discreditable to their imaginations as anything I know in recent philosophic history...

 382) "indeed this is so foolish a theorem that to entertain it is discreditable". Karl Pearson showed that the probability that the next (n + 1) trials...

enemies. His supreme manly prowess is constantly emphasised. Potentially-discreditable episodes such as the looting of Peterborough are excused and even wiped...

to entrap interviewees into making statements that are damaging or discreditable to their cause, character, integrity, or reputation. The term is rooted...

difficult and dangerous times. Some were even reformers, keen to root out discreditable practices such as simony. Others ordered the rebuilding and restoration...

users as a contemporary example of "dead agenting". It contained false discreditable information about critics of the Church. According to the New York Press...