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n. - The quality of not deserving respect.

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Usage examples (6)
  • “The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.”
  • We can remember well -- ah, we cannot forget, we have often wished we could, an act of rebellion against our parents of which we were once guilty; of obstinacy toward a master;...
  • But think of the dishonourableness of misleading other folk about one's income ....
  • First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.
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