discredited

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Discredited and imprisoned during the Stalinist purges of the early '50s, he was politically resurrected by Nikita Khrushchev.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discredited Words.—Away with the disgustingly over-used words optimism and pessimism!

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

Discredited by its policy of opposition to Lincoln's administration, its ablest leaders joined the Republicans in support of the war.

From The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states by Fleming, Walter Lynwood

Discredited from the very first by a dishonorable action, he had invariably managed to get his vices forgotten, thanks to the charms of a brilliant and fertile wit.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert