discreditable behaviour

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• discreditable — [[t]dɪskre̱dɪtəb(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED Discreditable behaviour is not acceptable because people consider it to be shameful and wrong. [FORMAL] She had been suspended from her job for discreditable behaviour. Syn: improper …   English dictionary

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• Frederick William Pottinger — Sir Frederick William Pottinger, 2nd Baronet (1831 1865), police inspector, was born on April 27 1831 in India, son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pottinger of the British East India Company, and his wife Susanna Maria, née Cooke, of Dublin. He… …   Wikipedia

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• Lucian — /looh sheuhn/, n. 1. A.D. 117 c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist. 2. ( Lucian of Antioch ; Lucian the Martyr ) A.D. c240 312, theologian and Biblical critic, born at Samosata, in Syria. 3. a male given name. * * * or Lucianos Latin Lucianus… …   Universalium

• Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …   Universalium

• Donatists — • The Donatist schism in Africa began in 311 and flourished just one hundred years, until the conference at Carthage in 411, after which its importance waned Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Donatists     Donatists …   Catholic encyclopedia

• rationalise — verb a) To make something rational or more rational. b) To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. ldquo;The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive… …   Wiktionary

• shameful — adjective 1) shameful behaviour Syn: disgraceful, deplorable, despicable, contemptible, discreditable, reprehensible, unworthy, shabby, shocking, scandalous, outrageous, abominable, atrocious, appalling, inexcusable, unforgivable …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• ratbag — /ˈrætbæg / (say ratbag) noun Colloquial 1. a rascal; rogue. 2. a person of eccentric or nonconforming ideas or behaviour. 3. a person whose preoccupation with a particular theory or belief is seen as obsessive or discreditable: that Marxist… …