Discredit is valid Scrabble Word

Is discredit a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is discredit valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for DISCREDIT in dictionary:

VERB:

to refuse to believe in
harm the good reputation of
cause (an idea or account) to seem false or unreliable
damage the reputation of
To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
cause to be distrusted or disbelieved
reject as false; refuse to accept

NOUN:

loss or lack of reputation or respect

a person or thing that is a source of disgrace
The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
the state of being held in low esteem
damage to someone's reputation

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to refuse to accept as true or accurat; disbelieve

Words related to DISCREDIT

discredited16 discrediting17 discredits14 disfame13

Words that contain DISCREDIT

discredits14 discredited16 discrediting17 discreditable19 discreditably22

How to use DISCREDIT in a sentence

There was, however, no discredit attached to having received proper assistance before coming into section.
And let us have pride in saying, that Miss Harlowe has not done either herself or family any discredit by coming among us.
He dismissed the suit with costs against Nagendra, and remarked that this palpable forgery cast discredit on the whole transaction.
Some of the stories inserted in his work have thrown an air of discredit over it, and caused the whole work to be regarded in rather an apocryphal light.
And lest the assertion should excite discredit, I may name some illustrious examples.
To the discredit of the nation be it said, he was never repaid what he had advanced.
The awful experience of that war had done much to discredit the old Roman religious system, which had been found insufficient of itself to preserve the State.
Nor is it true, as many persons assert to his discredit, that he has been unwilling to impart instruction.
For many centuries they were thrown into discredit by the authority of our existing absurd theological chronology.
As soon as men began to reason on the subject at all, they could not fail to discredit the assertion that the earth is an indefinite plane.

Churchill is very careful not to point it out in any way that could give justification to an unpopular view or discredit a popular one.
There is a traditional discredit of jealousy, not so strong as that against cowardice, but still very strong.
It was certainly German policy to weaken and discredit Serbia and to further Austrian influence at Belgrade at the expense of that of Russia.
They feared to discredit themselves in the eyes of the Hierosolymites by placing themselves in the school of a Galilean.
And then a disembodied thought flew round her, comparing her with Vernon to her discredit.
But some essays, rendered unsuccessful by unfortunate circumstances, place that, at present, under a discredit, which it will be found hereafter not to have merited.
Meyer, seems just as anxious to discredit the people of Johannesburg as formerly he was to defend them.
Till then you must take no step which shall discredit my office or the position to which my office raises you.
In the opening of his defence Cardan attempted to discredit the character of Brandonia.
The former was the better man, but his career brought discredit on private virtue and public morality.
It made no direct reference to Cooper, but the whole object was to discredit the account of the battle which he had given.
Believe me, lady, she will do no discredit to her lineage.
So eager were the fathers to discredit Simon that they contradict themselves in the most flagrant fashion on many important points.
The fellow evidently disliked him instinctively, and would exert every influence possible to discredit him in the eyes of Natalie.
Men do not affect a conduct that tends to their discredit.
The statement of the prosecution, said Dan Anderson, was on the whole a fair one, and no discredit to the learned brother making it.
This is not to his discredit, for the science of language has had its origin in a later and modern time.
It is not to the discredit of the Anglo-Saxon race that it loves savage sports.
He has a reputation for lying, and he never brings discredit upon that reputation.
Everybody was sorry, for it was one of the matches Heaven might have made without discredit.

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