bring into disrepute
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These are the self-made men who bring into disrepute all the grandeur and glorious achievement of their kind.
From From a Girl's Point of View by Bell, Lilian
Hence among Protestants the duty of Church Discipline is acknowledged, which deals with such sins or lapses from rectitude as constitute 'offences' or 'scandals,' and tend to bring into disrepute the Christian name and profession.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.
The effect of this free and easy course in the department is to bring into disrepute the really valuable invention and discovery, and to impose upon the people useless burdens.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
Explode, eks-plōd′, v.t. to cry down, as an actor: to bring into disrepute, and reject: to cause to blow up.—v.i. to burst with a loud report: to burst into laughter.—p.adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
