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"
Charles Neville Buck
At other times, however, he became subject to a funereal conviction that he would fail discreditably in the examinations to an accompaniment of the ridicule and contempt of all who knew him, that he would never succeed in acquiring sufficient brass cash to ensure a meagre sustenance even for himself, and that he would probably end his lower existence by ignominious decapitation, so that his pale and hungry ghost would be unable to find its way from place to place and be compelled to remain on the same spot through all eternity.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
The earlier Reviewers were discreditably savage on women-writers, and Lady Morgan had her share of their truculence.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury