bring into disrepute

Dr Shuja Shafi the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain distanced religion from the abuse filmed at Botwood: “Halal-ness doesn’t come into it at all. What they’re doing is contravening the law and it’s disturbing. We will wait to see what the FSA recommendations are, but things like this bring into disrepute the large number of Halal slaughterhouses that work to standard.”

The censors' original 43 "grounds for deletion" list from 1916 included several amusingly old-fashioned points, including scenes of "vitriol throwing", "scenes laid in disorderly houses", "vulgar accessories in the staging", "indecorous dancing" and scenes likely to "bring into disrepute British prestige in the Empire".

The effect of this free and easy course in the department is to bring into disrepute the really valuable invention and discovery, and to impose upon the people useless burdens.

Vast acquisitions have been made in the fields of science and history within the last half century, the moral lessons of which have done much to undermine and unsettle our popular system of religious faith, and to bring into disrepute or effectually change many of its long-cherished dogmas.

Explode, eks-plōd′, v.t. to cry down, as an actor: to bring into disrepute, and reject: to cause to blow up.—v.i. to burst with a loud report: to burst into laughter.—p.adj.