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 and disliked by his neighbours, flouted by the woman who had used him for her own gain, the man became a detestable and pitiable creature.

From A Son of the Hills by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

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

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

Discredited and beaten though he seemed to be, my husband was right.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

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