English-Portuguese translations for discredit

• descrédito
  Corremos o risco de o Parlamento cair em descrédito. We are running the risk of discrediting ourselves.
  Isso lançará o descrédito sobre as instituições. This will throw discredit upon the institution.
  Trata-se de um descrédito para o Parlamento Europeu. This brings discredit upon the European Parliament.
• desacreditar
  Se a questão for abordada por esta forma, isso desacreditará a nossa intervenção.Intervention will be discredited if this failure to act persists.
  Esta moção não passa de uma astúcia para desacreditar a Comissão Europeia. This motion is nothing but a ploy to discredit the European Commission.
  Lamento a tentativa feita pelo lóbi da indústria automóvel para desacreditar os testes EEVC. I regret the attempt by the car industry lobby to discredit the EEVC tests.

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