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Dishonorable   /dɪsˈɑnərəbəl/   Listen
Dishonorable

adjective
1.
Lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor.  Synonym: dishonourable.
2.
Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive.  Synonym: dishonest.



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"Dishonorable" Quotes from Famous Books



... their proceedings, which, good or bad, could not be imputed to them, because they never act but from a foreign impulse. Besides, minds without sense or knowledge, whose objects of esteem are influence, power and money, and far from imagining even that some respect is due to talents, and that it is dishonorable to ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... brigade, detached battalion. Jurisdiction. Over any person subject to military law (except an officer), and for any crime not capital. (Only soldiers excluding those having certificate of eligibility for promotion.) Sentence. (1) No power to adjudge dishonorable discharge. (2) No confinement in excess of six (6) months. (3) No forfeiture of pay in excess of six (6) months. (C) Summary Courts Martial (one (1) officer). Appointed by (1) Commanding officer of garrison, fort, ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

... seriously regarded. This task the Government, now for the first time effectively controlled by the king, was quite willing to undertake, all the more so on account of the recent burning of the Gaspee and the dishonorable publication of Hutchinson's letters. By overwhelming majorities Parliament accordingly passed the coercive acts, closing Boston Harbor to commerce until the town made compensation to the East India Company, remodeling the Massachusetts ...
— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... love is declared to be the source of the greatest benefits to us. There can be no greater blessing to a young person, we read, than a virtuous lover. Such a lover would rather die a thousand deaths than do a cowardly or dishonorable deed; and love would make an inspired hero out of the veriest coward. "Love will make men dare to die for the beloved—love alone." "The actions of a lover have a grace which ennobles them." "From this point of view a man ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... soon as she possibly could, she must find something to do. There must be no delay, no lingering, after the little need there was of her here now, should cease. Every day of willing waiting would be a day of dishonorable dependence. ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney


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