WordNet
n. a discharge from the United States Army for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder)
Usage examples of "dishonorable discharge".
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.
Are you going to make me spread it all over the newscasts that you had a dishonorable discharge?
Regardless of the outcome of the flight evaluation board, you were going to be summarily court-martialed, sentenced to four years restricted duty--probably as a warehouse officer in Greenland--reduction in grade to captain, then given a less-than honorable discharge, maybe even a dishonorable discharge.