discredible
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]discredible (comparative more discredible, superlative most discredible)
- discreditable; bringing discredit; shameful
- 1813, Washington Irving, Analectic Magazine:
- 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 […]
- 1999, Robert Granfield, William Cloud, Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment, page 125:
- 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.