Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To discredit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ credit

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Examples

  • Jimmy Carter, to his credit, left The Southern Baptist Convention when it announced a new woman-subordinating stance; if he gets credit for that then Blair gets uncredit for joining the unregenerate Church of Peter.

    Tony Blair. Joiner... and stupid. Dave 2009

  • Jimmy Carter, to his credit, left The Southern Baptist Convention when it announced a new woman-subordinating stance; if he gets credit for that then Blair gets uncredit for joining the unregenerate Church of Peter.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dave 2009

  • God created the world, out of nothing; and so corrupt the fair tempter of men's reputations; knowing that the multitude will believe them, because affirmations are apter to win belief, than negatives to uncredit them; and that a lie travels faster than an eagle flies, while the contradiction limps after it at a snail's pace, and, halting, never overtakes it.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • Demand is non-existant for a multitude of reasons (businesses afraid to spend, uncredit-worthy consumers can't get loans, etc ...).

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • Next thing you know they will be giving the banks a quota system that they will have to give out a certain amount of loans by the end of the month to uncredit worthy individuals thorough ACORN, mostly in Democratic controlled regions through Democrat own real estate agencies.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • You wrote: "Next thing you know they will be giving the banks a quota system that they will have to give out a certain amount of loans by the end of the month to uncredit worthy individuals ..."

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The Democratic control banks, real estate, and politicians will get rich and the poor uncredit worthy individuals will get back into the rat race thinking the Democrats are for the working class, but all they will end up in life is paying a lot of interest to the Government controlled banks for over priced real estate, while never really earning any equity in Democratic States and cities with no jobs.

    Latest Articles 2009

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