Impartial or partial

tashiroI think not "impartial" but "partial" is correct in context.

Are you taking the verb 'discredit' into account properly?

The tribunal was impartial ~ The tribunal was fair.

They wanted to discredit the idea that the tribunal was impartial ~ They wanted to make people doubt that the tribunal was fair. ~ They wanted to make be sure that

Thank you very much.

I saw the sentence below in my dictionary.

"The judge discredited the defendant's story as mere conjecture."

The sentence translated into my mother tongue is equal to

"The judge didn't believe the defendant's story because the judge thought it was mere conjecture."

I'm wondering if the dictionary is wrong.

I wouldn't personally translate it that way (I would probably say disbelieved instead of discredited, unless, in context, the judge were discussing the testimony with someone else), but that's a reasonable translation nonetheless.

Oh, I see your problem now - the two sentences are using different senses of "discredit". The one about Hezbollah uses "discredit" to mean "caused others to disbelieve; inspired doubt in others about". When discredit is used in this sense, the following clause typically describes exactly what the discreditor is attempting to make others disbelieve. The sentence about the judge uses "discredited"

tashiroI saw the sentence below in my dictionary.
"The judge discredited the defendant's story as mere conjecture."
The sentence translated into my mother tongue is equal to
"The judge didn't believe the defendant's story because the judge thought it was mere conjecture."
I'm wondering if the dictionary is wrong.

It is very easy to see why you