- a variation of dishonorable.
dishonourable
Britishadjective
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characterized by or causing dishonour or discredit
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having little or no integrity; unprincipled
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But he added: "As you know from our conversation earlier this week, having lost confidence in your leadership, I have concluded that it would be dishonourable and unprincipled to do so."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Singh defended himself during the debate, saying that his "conscience remains clear" and disagreed with the debate's resolution that his behaviour was "dishonourable and unbecoming".
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
“There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one’s own generation.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2020
However, pop has a long, dishonourable lineage of songs that now sound unfortunate or offensive.
From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2018
What the printing press did, quite simply, was undermine ‘the dishonourable tyranny of that Usurper, Authority’ and strengthen evidence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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