Dishonourable

Word DISHONOURABLE
Character 13
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Definitions and meanings of "Dishonourable"

What do we mean by dishonourable?

Without honor, or causing dishonor.

Lacking respect for ethical principles.

When a brother says he'll ride through the dark valley of scone with you, but then pulls an emo. Urban Dictionary

You go to a dude's house thinking you're up for a tour of duty but he drinks too much tequila and you come home with undies that look like you blew your nose in them. Urban Dictionary

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The word "dishonourable" in example sentences

Skilled propagandists constantly gibed at what they called the dishonourable default of an honourable debt. ❋ Unknown (1940)

'My dear Wilfrid,' were her next words, 'you have been guilty of what is commonly called a dishonourable action.' ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Will you not, then, tell me who you are, and what is this thing, which you call dishonourable, that brought you into Languedoc? " ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Cyril whom she had never even had course or reason to call dishonourable had written himself to ask her to try and forgive him. ❋ Daisy Ashford (1926)

“Yes, I think it may be fairly called dishonourable,” said Rose; ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)

But if he is called dishonourable for dissenting, then honour does not seem to me to be a real word at all, but only a term of abuse for a man who objects to some concerted plan. ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)

The gloomy and melancholy argument brought forward by the enemies of "communism" that under such a condition "the incentive of private initiative would disappear" and that no other motive could take its place, is an argument based upon the assumption that human nature derives more inspiration from the idea of dishonourable greed than it derives from the idea of honourable and useful labour; which is an assumption so wholly opposed to true psychology that it has only to be nakedly stated to be seen in its complete absurdity. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Why should we let up on the "dishonourable" who hang on for pretty base reasons - self interests, their pockets,and their undeserved status? ❋ Jeff (2009)

Somewhere in my head I think there's a way to distinguish between a way of representing an argument that's honourable and one that is dishonourable which is of a higher level or different place than just whether or not you appeal to rhetoric or emotion, but I can't place it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

a private soldier of the Emperor's guard should have so long resisted the utmost efforts of so approved a knight, could not but own that the combat had been fought with perfect fairness and equality, and decided upon terms dishonourable to neither party. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Tancred, though somewhat surprised, and perhaps even scandalized, that a private soldier of the Emperor’s guard should have so long resisted the utmost efforts of so approved a knight, could not but own that the combat had been fought with perfect fairness and equality, and decided upon terms dishonourable to neither party. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is a kind of dishonourable degree, and the record of it (notwithstanding Swift's present established character throughout the learned world) must for ever remain against him in the academical register at Dublin. ' ❋ Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 (1753)

Mrs Rosenkranz says she cannot detect anything "dishonourable" in her husband's activities. [email protected] (2010)

There we read that the spokesman for the Supreme Council of Justice, after using all sorts of filthy language and names to refer to the 'dishonourable' communists, had demanded the maximum punishment for them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If I say, 'I give you my honour not to do a thing,' then I can be called dishonourable if I don't do it; but you can't put me on my honour unless I consent.” ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)

Aren't you telling me that to put money in your own pocket you would do what people call a dishonourable act? " ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)

The dishonour really lay with the wife, if she deceived her husband -- and with the other man if he was the husband's friend -- if he was not, his abduction of the woman was not 'dishonourable' because he was not trusted, it was merely an act of theft. " ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)

Innocent people and - worse still - victims of tragedies, like Milly Dowler and Christian Small, were caught up in a sordid little game of hide 'n' seek perpetrated by dishonourable tabloid hacks, each aided by their private investigator underlings. ❋ Christopher Beanland (2011)

[Pulling out] of a drinking [contest] for fear of looking like a [prick], see also 'Irony' Very dishonourable ❋ Brotherhood Of Scone (2005)

[Friend A]. "How was your date last night Friend B. "[Dishonourable Discharge]." Friend A. "Whaaaaat?" Friend B."Went back to his place and we were making out, I went to the bathroom and when I came back he was passed out. I went home with a panty-load of [twat snot]. ❋ Clitteratti (2015)

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