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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

tending to cause discredit/disgrace by injuring or harming the reputation of someone or something;

e.g. His discreditable inattention to details made the whole organization look bad.

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Similar Words

Disgraceful

Dishonorable

Disreputable

Ignominious

Illaudable

Infamous

Louche

Notorious

Opprobrious

Seamy

Shady

Shameful

Shoddy

Shy

Squalid

Unlikable

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Opposite Words

Admirable

Authorized

Big

Chivalrous

Creditable

Elevated

Esteemed

Ethical

Exemplary

Gallant

Good

Great

Greathearted

Hallowed

High

High-minded

Honest

Honorable

Just

Laudable

Legal

Licensed

Lofty

Lordly

Magnanimous

Moral

Natural

Noble

Permissible

Prestigious

Principled

Reputable

Reputed

Revered

Reverend

Righteous

Sacred

Sublime

Upright

Upstanding

Venerable

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Related Words

Bad

Base

Black

Blameworthy

Censurable

Cheap

Contemptible

Corrupt

Criminal

Degenerate

Deplorable

Depraved

Despicable

Detestable

Dishonorable

Dissolute

Evil

Execrable

Gamy

Grubby

Ignoble

Ignominious

Immoral

Inglorious

Iniquitous

Lame

Libertine

Loose

Low

Low-minded

Lowdown

Mean

Miserable

Nefarious

Pathetic

Perverted

Pitiable

Pitiful

Ratty

Reprehensible

Reprobate

Rotten

Sad

Scabby

Scurvy

Seamy

Sinful

Sneaking

Snide

Sordid

Sorry

Unethical

Unrighteous

Unsavory

Vicious

Vile

Villainous

Wicked

Wretched

Wrong

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