Meaning of DISHONORABLE
| Pronunciation: | | dis'ânurubul
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- [adj] not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"
- [adj] deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- [adj] lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge"
- [adj] morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"
- [adj] not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
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| | Synonyms: | | ambidextrous, base, beguiling, black, blackguardly, debasing, deceitful, deceptive, degrading, disgraceful, dishonest, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, fallacious, false, fraudulent, ignominious, immoral, inglorious, Janus-faced, misleading, obscure, opprobrious, picaresque, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, shabby, shameful, thieving(a), thievish, two-faced, unethical, unknown, unprincipled, unsung, wrong, yellow |
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| | Antonyms: | | glorious, honest, honorable, honourable | | |
| | See Also: | | corrupt, crooked, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, ignoble, insincere, unjust, untrustworthy, untrusty, unworthy | |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*hon"or*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]shonorable.]
1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving
dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the
reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.
He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in
poverty! --Ecclus. x.
31.
To find ourselves dishonorable graves. --Shak.
-- {Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Dis*hon"or*a*bly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | amoral, bad, base, conscienceless, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debased, degrading, derogatory, despicable, devious, dirty, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonest, disloyal, disreputable, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, evasive, evil, faithless, felonious, filthy, fishy, flagrant, foul, fraudulent, heinous, hypocritical, ignoble, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, improper, indirect, infamous, inglorious, insidious, low, mean, not kosher, notorious, objectionable, outrageous, perfidious, questionable, reprehensible, rotten, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shaming, shifty, shoddy, sinister, slippery, sordid, suspicious, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, unbecoming, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unpraiseworthy, unprincipled, unrespectable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseemly, unstraightforward, untrustworthy, unworthy, vile, without remorse, without shame |
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