discredibleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

discredible (comparative more discredible, superlative most discredible)

1. discreditable; bringing discredit; shameful
   • 1813, Washington Irving, Analectic Magazine

     Greater vigilance would certainly prevent these discredible descents. Occasionally however, his errors seem to be deliberate, and are owing not to want of care, but to perversion of taste […]

   • 1999, Robert Granfield, ‎William Cloud, Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment (page 125)

     These people preferred not to think of themselves as addicted or alcoholic, not because they weren't dependent on these substances but rather because of their unwillingness to adopt a discredible image of themselves as permanently sick.