disrepute
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1. disrepute - Noun
2. disrepute - Verb
Meaning
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
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The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.
Anyway, you know full well I never wear boutonnieres. The decoration has fallen into disrepute. The only remaining devotees of the practice are roués and saxophone players.
An armed insurrection ... would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.