The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dishonorable \Dis*hon"or*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]shonorable.]
Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Without honor, or causing dishonor 2 Lacking respect or ethical principles alt. 1 Without honor, or causing dishonor 2 Lacking respect or ethical principles
WordNet
adj. lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge" [syn: dishonourable] [ant: honorable]
deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: dishonest] [ant: honest]
not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" [syn: inglorious] [ant: glorious]
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" [syn: base, dishonourable, immoral, unethical]
morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men" [syn: dishonourable]
Usage examples of "dishonorable".
De Vargas was the only one who earnestly opposed the desertion as inhuman and dishonorable, and Orellana punished him by abandoning him in the wilderness and sailing away without him.
Sciron and Sinis and Procrustes dishonorable for employing these methods ?
Sciron and Sinis and Procrustes dishonorable for employing these methods?
I know the Baron of Vo Toral for a notorious spendthrift, but had not thought him dishonorable.
So it appears that even a man as dishonorable as Lodar could aot simply kill me to rid himself of a nagging problem.
Our rebels, my cervine friend, are being a good bit more dishonorable with their wretched plots.
They have informed me that they are conducting their own investigations into these charges as they know that never have you or my son behaved in a dishonorable fashion.
We can but pray our Savior that all men of power in our realm recall that sentiment when they are offered bribes by this most dishonorable Bishop of Rome.
The Surgeon-Captain is an ethical and highly moral being who would consider it dishonorable to escape what it will consider to be a justly imposed punishment for its crime by means of suicide, even though a custodial sentence would be the harshest, in terms of continued mental distress, that could be imposed.
According to him, Brent had a dishonorable discharge from the army in 1972.
He had told her to force them to give her a dishonorable discharge so he could launch an appeal and bring the whole case to open court.
After all she's done for you, General, she doesn't deserve a dishonorable discharge.
He had been asked to volunteer for the assignment, to deliberately provoke a court martial offense, to seek a dishonorable discharge in order to go into covert operations.
The only exit is dishonorable discharge, and you won't get that without time in the brig first.
She was facing a court-martial, dishonorable discharge, maybe prison time or execution, if she couldn't prove that Admiral Lepescu's order was not only stupid but illegal.