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TO DISCREDIT, practice, evidence. To deprive one of credit or confidence.
2. In general, a party may discredit a witness called by the opposite party, who testifies against him, by proving that his character is such as not to entitle him to credit or confidence, or any other fact which shows he is not, entitled to belief. It is clearly settled, also, that the party voluntarily calling a witness, cannot afterwards impeach his character for truth and veracity. 1 Moo. & Rob. 414; 3 B. & Cress. 746; S. C. 10 Eng. Com. Law R. 220. But if a party calls a witness, who turns out unfavorable, he may call another to prove the same point. 2 Campb. R. 556 2 Stark. R. 334; S. C. 3 E. C. L. R. 371 1 Nev & Man. 34; 4 B. & Adolph. 193; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 47; 1 Phil. Ev. 229; Rosc. Civ. Ev. 96.

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After his quickfire hat-trick against Luxembourg on Saturday, Shearer sneered that he was not answerable to "discredited people" - among whom Kelly was perceived to be a prime target.

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He also had been an economic adviser to President Garcia's disastrous and discredited regime.

Pulling the plug on Fujimori: globalists operating through the UN and the U.S. government crashed Peru's economy and toppled its duly elected government to advance their new world order. (Peru)

Not only has the original cyclamate study been discredited, but other fears about the sweetener have also proven ill-founded.

Sweet dreams

"For more than thirty years, the smear brigade derided these concerns as the perfervid fantasies of discredited 'conspiracy theorists.' When the plans of the internationalists for a world government backed by U.S.

The big smear: knowing that The John Birch Society could foil their plans, the architects of America's engineered decline have long targeted this patriotic group for defamatory smears

The Great Society advocates who could still pass themselves off as young Turks in the late 1970s are discredited graybeards now.

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Cornwell, British author of the recently published and discredited book Hitler's Pope, was treated as a legitimate source of truth, while the Church's expert on Pius XII's wartime policies regarding the Holocaust was looked upon as biased.

CBC hostile to Pius XII (Canada)

Do gay pediatricians draw the old, discredited myths about gay men as threats to kids?

Rx for gay parenting: a Missouri physician talks about the American Academy of Pediatrics' pro-gay proclamation regarding adoption rights. (Behind the Headlines)

Your columnist Matthew Norman is right - Campbell is Tony Blair's mouthpiece, so a discredited Campbell means a discredited government.

Mirror M@ilbox: In a spin over Iraq

Public sector development is largely dormant or discredited at the moment, and it may be that the private sector is the only means of finding the capital and management skills to generate such huge developments in a sensible period of time.

Berlin

It is very difficult to reestablish believability once we have discredited ourselves by promoting information that turns out to be misinformation--or even worse, intentional disinformation.

9-11 conspiracy fact & fiction: an abundance of sensational and irrational conjecture about the September 11 terrorist attacks is being used to discredit any consideration of conspiracy in general

But this mechanism, along with the therapy itself, has been discredited by most members of the medical profession, including the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, American College of Physicians and American Osteopathic Association.

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The report's tone is reminiscent of nothing so much as the cult classic film Reefer Madness, a piece of government propaganda that so exaggerated the threats of marijuana smoking that it single-handedly discredited government information on drugs for at least a generation.