Confounded
Confounded adjective - Deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure.
Discredited and confounded are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Discredited" instead a verb "Confounded".
Nearby Words: confounding, confoundedly
Discredited
Discredited adjective - Being unjustly brought into disrepute.
Confounded and discredited are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Confounded" instead a verb "Discredited".
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- As for the Titius-Bode Law, it was thrown into doubt by the 1846 discovery of Neptune (which is nowhere near where it "should" be), confounded by the discovery of Pluto (which is where the law states Neptune should be), and pretty much discredited by the Kuiper Belt.
Source: Right for the Wrong Reasons
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