erode credibility
Frequency: 6.911.0 per million words
To gradually wear away or destroy credibility.
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- The constant policy changes eroded the government's credibility among voters.
- A series of product failures has seriously eroded the company's credibility.
- Spreading misinformation will inevitably erode a journalist's credibility.
- Continuously breaking promises can erode your personal credibility with friends.
- The witness's credibility was eroded under intense cross-examination.
- If the research findings are not reproducible, it could erode the scientist's credibility.
- The expert's shifting opinions are slowly eroding his credibility in the field.
- He was warned that making such baseless claims would erode his credibility.
- Any factual error in the report risks eroding its overall credibility.
- A lack of transparency will eventually erode the credibility of the entire organization.