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dishonourable

/ dɪsˈɒnərəbəl; -ˈɒnrəbəl /

adjective

  1. characterized by or causing dishonour or discredit
  2. having little or no integrity; unprincipled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • disˈhonourableness, noun
  • disˈhonourably, adverb
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Example Sentences

If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

It won't make me a bit more dishonourable to open the letter again—I've opened it once, and I don't feel any the worse for it.

Up to then a terrible obstacle—the life of the legitimate wife—had prolonged a dishonourable situation.

But a more dishonourable thing was never suffered by Englishmen, nor a more barbarous done by man, as this by them to us.

Their denials of it were an admission of the unlawfulness of such acts, as they were also dishonourable to themselves.

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