Adjective : Cheating is dishonorable. ,a dishonorable man. From Dictionary.com.
Skilled propagandists constantly gibed at what they called the dishonourable default of an honourable debt. From Wordnik.com. [Yesterday and To-day in America] Reference
'My dear Wilfrid,' were her next words, 'you have been guilty of what is commonly called a dishonourable action.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Will you not, then, tell me who you are, and what is this thing, which you call dishonourable, that brought you into Languedoc? ". From Wordnik.com. [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference
“Yes, I think it may be fairly called dishonourable,” said Rose. From Wordnik.com. [Father Payne]
Cyril whom she had never even had course or reason to call dishonourable had written himself to ask her to try and forgive him. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy Ashford: Her Book] Reference
Mrs Rosenkranz says she cannot detect anything "dishonourable" in her husband's activities. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories]
Aren't you telling me that to put money in your own pocket you would do what people call a dishonourable act? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Short Cut] Reference
William was taking a dishonourable advantage of him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
There is nothing dishonourable in such an inclination. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
De Wet is a man of brutal and dishonourable character. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
It ain't me having been dishonourable as stands between us. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
And she felt as one guilty of a mean and dishonourable deed. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"It would be no more dishonourable to tell a lie than break a promise.". From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
England had been technically justified by a distinctly dishonourable trick. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Skipper Drummond is a dishonourable man, I am not sorry that you went to sea. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
"It would be dishonourable of him to make you care," Miss Lermontof had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
So far as we know, none die on the gibbet but men of dishonourable and base life. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Just now his gubernatorial ambition, fed by dishonourable methods, found support in. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
According to the world, some professions are reckoned honourable, and some dishonourable. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
SOCRATES: I am asking if you ever knew any one who did what was dishonourable and yet just?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
The Latins by departing redeemed themselves from a share in what they deemed a dishonourable peace. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Thus they marched up and down, calling out insulting names and charging him with dishonourable deeds. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
You have been detected in a most dishonourable act, and you have added to your fault by telling a lie. From Wordnik.com. [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference
And, so long as there was nothing dishonourable attached to it, Steel was prepared to redeem his pledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
We by no means desire to stain the memory of O'Meara (he is since dead) with any dishonourable suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Rhodes could have outmanoeuvred a man of exceptional financial ability without using dishonourable means. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Very dishonourable attempts were also made to seduce their children from the profession of evangelical principles. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
I don't want you to feel that you are anything but a free agent, or to do anything that you consider dishonourable. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
For if ordered to do anything you please disreputable or dishonourable, he is ready to take any pains to oblige you. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Hyder Ally had reduced the company, after an expensive war, to sue for a dishonourable peace, and India stock fell rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Skipper Drummond sighed deeply, as if he was sincerely sorry for the fact that there were some men who were very dishonourable. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Such opinions, although held by religious men, are dishonourable to the Scriptures, and needlessly degrading to the human mind. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
"It is dishonourable to read other people's letters," Mr. Ellis admonished them severely when he became aware of this peculiarity. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
If a Roman in former days was asked to do a mean, or dishonourable action, it was enough for him to answer, "I am a Roman citizen!". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
He left a will, bequeathing to Michael, his son and heir, a rotten firm, a dishonourable name, a history of dishonesty, a nest of troubles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
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