Discredited
Discredited adjective - Being unjustly brought into disrepute.
Refused and discredited are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Refused" instead a verb "Discredited".
Refused
Discredited and refused are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discredited" instead a verb "Refused".
Both words in one sentence
- Seriously: that necklace costed enough to build and equip a warship, and when Marie Antoinette balked at the price and refused it a group of scammers used her name to steal it, and their success at the trial in painting themselves as Unwitting Pawns of the queen discredited the monarchy.
Source: Serious Business / Real Life -
Gregoire, a devout Catholic and firm revolutionary, strongly opposed Napoleon's plan to roll-back the Church reform with the Concordat and to the end of his life, even during the Restoration, refused to abjure his oath to the discredited Civic Constitution.
Source: Turbulent Priest
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