| 单词 | discreditably |
| 例句 | "However, attempts to gain unauthorized access to classified areas or purposeful breaches of basic security protocols may cause classified information to be improperly disclosed, and may reflect discreditably on the House as a legislative body." House Ethics Committee warns lawmakers about access to secure areas after GOP members' intrusion 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But after what I had so altogether discreditably overheard now I had fifty other reasons for wishing him to come along with me. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z I sincerely hope that Lord Campbell's first literary attempt will prove not to be thus discreditably signalized. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z I soon after learnt that he had behaved very discreditably at Oxford and had been obliged to leave, and that his match had been broken off by Miss Stanley. The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z It would come with all the shock of a fresh scandal if by their subsequent acts they revived the talk which had coupled their names already, and still reflected discreditably on the girl. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z This causes embarrassment for both, or all, people concerned, and reflects discreditably on the hostess. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z Little Ally Dockett sometimes takes a hand, if need be, and acquits herself not discreditably; but sixteen rushes in where two-and-thirty fears to tread. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z They were prompt in furnishing their quota of vessels, but discreditably remiss in their manner of equipping them. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies All these years, she reflected with a smile of self-derision, she had harboured the thought of this mountain girl, caricatured by imagination into a bare-foot sloven, before whose vulgar charms Boone's loyalty had discreditably wavered. The Tempering “What is there disgraceful, to your thinking, in your having set aside half of the three thousand you had discreditably, if you prefer, ‘disgracefully,’ appropriated? The Brothers Karamazov But he was docile, he was persevering, and passed through the school, and afterwards the college, not discreditably. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 In others the facts are never divulged, because the victims prefer to suffer loss rather than have their names dragged into a publicity which, to say the least, would reflect on them discreditably. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The Ministers have on the whole come out of them discreditably. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) If she removed all the furniture but the bed and the bureau and left the governess nothing to sit down on, it would only reflect discreditably upon the family's supply of household goods. The Governess Again the horseman cantered gaily to his former place of observation on the left; but our sharpshooters had the range, and his fine sorrel was turned to the work limping very discreditably. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac It called the unfortunate shape in leather by several strange and creditably, or perhaps discreditably, original names, but as this flow of eloquence was in German, it could not be appreciated by the ladies. My Friend the Chauffeur I fear by what you say, “Flossy jun.” behaves discreditably, and gets his mistress into scrapes. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The Eusebians had behaved discreditably enough, but they had at least frustrated the council, and secured a recognition of their creed from a large body of Eastern conservatives. The Arian Controversy Personal characteristics must decide a woman's reputation, irrespective of the fact that she lives upon the stage; and it is unjust that the faults of some should reflect discreditably upon all in any profession. Infelice The importance of Vado Bay, so discreditably lost the year before, strikes him from this point of view, as it did also Bonaparte from his more closely coherent plan of operations. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain They had revealed to the world at large the generally prevalent ignorance of Shakespeare and his works which so discreditably distinguished his countrymen. A Study of Shakespeare Most of all he grieved to think that a delegate of his ward, largely through his own interference, was acting discreditably. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him The earlier Reviewers were discreditably savage on women-writers, and Lady Morgan had her share of their truculence. The English Novel In his warlike policy, the prophet's strategy reflects most discreditably upon his character, everything that was honourable and virtuous being sacrificed to the passion for conquest. Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam Lucian went slowly, but not discreditably, up the school, gaining prizes now and again, and falling in love more and more with useless reading and unlikely knowledge. The Hill of Dreams It was a long time since any well-known banker had failed discreditably; but every one remembered the social extinction visited on the heads of the firm when the last event of the kind had happened. The Age of Innocence He fought at Bosworth, not discreditably; and a year afterward, when England had for the most part accepted Henry VII, Matthiette rejoined her husband. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages They respect their own harims, yet this is the second time I am mentioned discreditably in their public correspondence. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II Our expectation, so I think, is in the slowly mounting level of the vast bourgeois literature that fills not excellently, but certainly not discreditably, our books and magazines. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism But our friend the parson was discreditably shabby. Castle Richmond "Master Roscoe," said Mr. Crabb, with a pained look, "I hope you have not started so discreditably in your school life." Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute An impulse to avoid danger at all hazards: i. e., to run away, and save yourself, however discreditably. The Recreations of a Country Parson Lorelei was not a little mystified by Merkle's cryptic message, for she could imagine no possible way in which she or the writer himself could be connected discreditably with Jarvis Hammon's affair. The Auction Block The Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Washington, a singularly energetic and far-seeing organization, itself published the report which Congress had thus discreditably refused to publish. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography "Louisbourg was not taken by THEM, but fell through the mutiny of the base Swiss!" replied Bigot, touched sharply by any allusion to that fortress where he had figured so discreditably. The Golden Dog He had tried one employment after another, and had discreditably failed in all. No Name |
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