What's the difference between discredit and uncredit?
Discredit
Definition:
(n.) The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
(n.) Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
(v. t.) To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited.
(v. t.) To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
(v. t.) To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(2) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
(3) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(4) Moreover, genetics textbooks consistently employ confused or misleading definitions of the concept of heritability that, together with the reporting of discredited data, perpetuate a fundamentally inaccurate understanding of the genetics of intelligence.
(5) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(6) And while neoliberalism had been discredited, western governments used the crisis to try to entrench it.
(7) Double-label immunoelectron microscopy was used to demonstrate directly the co-existence of ICL and SGAT within individual microbodies, thereby discrediting the two-population hypothesis.
(8) Rubio was asked during the debate how he would handle the nation’s finances if he couldn’t handle his own, to which the senator similarly defended himself against what he said were “discredited” attacks.
(9) However, many fear that candidates are focusing on fraud in an unscrupulous attempt to set the ground for complaints if they lose, and risk discouraging voters and discrediting the entire election process along the way.
(10) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(11) Although it is still early days, some have suggested that, if successful, the model could act as an alternative to prosecutions by the International Criminal Court, which has become discredited in the eyes of many Africans.
(12) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
(13) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
(14) Caro Gonzales, a 26-year-old member of the Chemehuevi tribe and an anti-police violence activist in Washington state, said the language from law enforcement officials resembled that used to discredit unarmed black men killed by police.
(15) He deflected the question as an example of an attack which he said was “ discredited ”.
(16) Though the evidence that austerity is not working continues to mount, Germany and the other hawks have doubled down on it, betting Europe’s future on a long-discredited theory.
(17) Every effort was made to discredit those who rejected the case for invasion and occupation – and would before long be comprehensively vindicated.
(18) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
(19) It also offers advice on how to talk to your employer, as it’s common for abusers to bombard a target’s workplace with false accusations, hoax phone calls and other tactics designed to discredit them.
(20) Surgeons working with laser beam may discredit the method by putting the indication not rigorusly enough.
Uncredit
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statham's biggest recent openings have been in ensemble casts in The Expendables and Fast & Furious 6 , where he played an uncredited cameo role.
(2) It demonstrated just how much of society ran on women’s uncredited free work.
(3) He was one of the many uncredited writers who worked at one time or another on the script for the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty (right).
(4) While Indian cinema has occasionally paid lip service to the west, most often it has cheerfully gone its own way: ransacking Shakespearean plot and characters, but remaking them for audiences who see no reason to care whether William Shakespeare was the world's greatest poet or an uncredited hack scriptwriter.
(5) Then the comedian would be run out of town by an angry mob who had realised that this charlatan’s stories were not necessarily true, his jokes were just meaningless wordplay, he did the same fake improvisations every night, and his personal anecdotes had been bought in wholesale from an uncredited writer on a £60 day rate.
(6) Set in suburban Texas in the summer of 1976, on the last day of school, Richard Linklater’s 1993 movie had the tagline: “A time they’d never forget (if only they could remember).” It had a ridiculous ensemble cast (Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, an uncredited Renée Zellweger, all unknowns) but the standout performance is from a young Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson, a twentysomething guru still hanging with high-school kids.
(7) Remarkably, it's her first film – though the situation is muddied by whether you count her uncredited role rewriting the 2008 prison biopic Bronson.
(8) Usefully, he had become a script doctor – a kind of uncredited Hollywood paramedic called in to do emergency rewrites when multimillion-dollar films (Mr and Mrs Smith, for instance, a couple of Ridley Scotts) were going down in flames.
(9) Six years later, in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Walter won an Oscar as best supporting actor, a film in which John is uncredited as a tourist whom Bogart panhandles in Mexico.
(10) Empire online says he has done uncredited rewrite work on several big budget films , including Kung Fu Panda 2 .
(11) She also became an uncredited “script doctor”, polishing and rewriting screenplays (among them The River Wild, The Wedding Singer and Sister Act) for small fortunes, though she insisted jokingly on being referred to as “a script nurse.
(12) The nomination and selection process is secretive and obscure, and worthy winners go uncredited because of the arbitrary maximum three-person limit on winners.
(13) Cartier-Bresson would later destroy a large proportion of his colour negatives and transparencies – despite providing Life magazine with a famous, if uncredited, colour cover shot in 1959 for an in-depth report on China.