English-Italian translations for discredit

• disdoro
• disonore
• infamia
• onta
• screditare
  Questa mozione non è altro che uno stratagemma per screditare la Commissione europea. This motion is nothing but a ploy to discredit the European Commission.
  Proposte simili non fanno altro che screditare le iniziative prese per far progredire le donne. Proposals such as this only discredit the initiatives taken to promote women.
  Invece le asserzioni contenute nella relazione contribuiscono a screditare e a criminalizzare i richiedenti asilo. Instead, the statements in the report help to discredit and criminalise asylum-seekers.
• vergogna
  Ho notato in corridoio una mostra di foto di personalità, alcune considerate famose, fra cui una o due io considerei invece infami, ma una è certamente una vergogna.In the corridor I noticed a display of photographs of personalities, some of whom are called famous, one or two of whom I would call infamous and one whom I would call thoroughly discreditable.

Definition of discredit

• To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable
• Discrediting or disbelieving
• A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution
• The state of being discredited or disbelieved
• A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach

Examples

• The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
• The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.
• Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Related words

• discreditor
• discreditable
• undiscreditable
• discredit#Inglese|discredit