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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a dishonorable manner. alt. In a dishonorable manner.
WordNet
adv. in a dishonorable manner; "he acted dishonorably" [ant: honorably]
with dishonor; "he was dishonorably discharged" [ant: honorably]
in a dishonorably manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low" [syn: disgracefully, ingloriously, ignominiously, discreditably, shamefully, dishonourably]
Usage examples of "dishonorably".
Feyodov learned that he had been dishonorably discharged from the military the day he had been discovered in the Grozny cellar.
Major Theodore Dobbins, age forty-six, dishonorably discharged for embezzlement, served three terms for fraud in England, one for robbery in Australia.
I’d been dishonorably discharged, this time for teaching campmates an immoral song.
I shall say nothing of what he did at Antioch, except to mention his being struck with wonder at the freedom and cheerfulness of one most faithful and steadfast young man, who, when many were seized to be tortured, was tortured during a whole day, and sang under the instrument of torture, until the emperor feared lest he should succumb under the continued cruelties and put him to shame at last, which made him dread and fear that he would be yet more dishonorably put to the blush by the rest.