Noun : His arrest brought dishonor to his family. ,to do someone a dishonor. ,He is a dishonor to his family. From Dictionary.com.
"I will not have my name dishonored; it shall not be.". From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
"I will not have my name dishonored," said he coldly to Florestan. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
The first is to kill myself, and to leave your name dishonored, for if. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
Then have you heard his name dishonored, found his tomb empty when you went there to pray?. From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin Must Go] Reference
The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these "eagles" of the highway. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar] Reference
Have you afterwards heard his name dishonored, have you found his tomb empty when you went to pray beside it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
His venerable and respected name dishonored by a man whom he had reason to doubt was his son?. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
Her family refused to acknowledge her life, as she had "dishonored" them. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
She was driven from her house, stripped, dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
'Shylock,' with his dishonored order and his complaint. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
You have dishonored my home, you owe me your life for that. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Is it not infamous that an innocent person should be thus dishonored?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But I cannot withhold it, even though it has gone down, tainted and dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He studied law, a dishonored profession in Stalin's day, but a path to advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Why He's Failing] Reference
But according to rural Pakistan's strict Islamic code, she was forever "dishonored.". From Wordnik.com. ['I DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK'] Reference
I shall take my family name -- a dishonored name -- but I shall bear it without shame. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A nation cannot submit to be dishonored before the world -- for its honor is its life. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He broke our mother's heart ... our good, good mother; he has dishonored himself and us. From Wordnik.com. [A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah"] Reference
His courage honors a European mind which is, at this very moment, so methodically dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Predrag Matvejevitch Must Not Go to Prison!] Reference
Desolation broods in yonder sad city -- solemn retribution hath avenged our dishonored banner!. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference
The strength of our democratic system, our faith in its integrity, is being sapped and dishonored by money. From Wordnik.com. ['White Tornado'] Reference
She reproaches him first with his treachery, then implores him, not to forsake her and leave her dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
If as virile young men they had stood by and just watched, they would have been dishonored in their communities. From Wordnik.com. [A Turnaround Strategy] Reference
He scoffed at every one; he dishonored all the young girls; he played all sorts of tricks, and was tired of everything. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Prof. APPIAH: Well, we say - or being dishonored, and that's what dis is short for, I think: disrespected or dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [Author Finds 'Honor Code' Isn't What It Used To Be] Reference
"Those elements, such as the special-group, extremist elements, have in fact dishonored Sadr's pledge of honor," says Boylan. From Wordnik.com. [A Radical Cleric Gets Religion] Reference
Apart from Liebknecht the whole of German Social Democracy is dishonored: it is desired to expel the German Socialists from the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Then Claire spoke of her child, of her husband's name, which was also her father's, and which would be dishonored by the failure. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Since Risler is so foolish, so blind as to allow the name to be dishonored by you, it is my place to defend it against your attacks. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The notes were a dishonored, depreciated promise, the purchasing power of which varied day by day, the football of "bulls and bears.". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
And so that poor, outcast, despised, dishonored woman, scorned and cast-off by all the world, had found one sympathizing, pitying friend. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
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