DISHONORABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonorable mean? 

• DISHONORABLE (adjective)
  The adjective DISHONORABLE has 2 senses:

1. lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor

2. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

  Familiarity information: DISHONORABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHONORABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor

Synonyms:

dishonorable; dishonourable

Context example:

dishonorable in thought and deed

Similar:

black; disgraceful; ignominious; inglorious; opprobrious; shameful ((used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame)

debasing; degrading (used of conduct; characterized by dishonor)

shabby (mean and unworthy and despicable)

unprincipled (having little or no integrity)

yellow (cowardly or treacherous)

Also:

inglorious (not bringing honor and glory)

dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)

unjust (violating principles of justice)

ignoble (completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose)

disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)

unworthy (lacking in value or merit)

Attribute:

honorableness; honourableness (the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor)

Antonym:

honorable (worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect)

Derivation:

dishonorableness (the quality of not deserving honor or respect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

Synonyms:

dishonest; dishonorable

Similar:

beguiling (misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods)

deceitful; fallacious; fraudulent (intended to deceive)

deceptive; misleading (designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently)

false (designed to deceive)

picaresque (involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction)

blackguardly; rascally; roguish; scoundrelly (lacking principles or scruples)

shady (of questionable honesty or legality)

thieving; thievish (given to thievery)

ambidextrous; deceitful; double-dealing; double-faced; double-tongued; duplicitous; Janus-faced; two-faced (marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another)

Also:

untrustworthy; untrusty (not worthy of trust or belief)

false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)

corrupt; crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)

insincere (lacking sincerity)

dishonorable; dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)

Derivation:

dishonorableness (the quality of not deserving honor or respect)

 Context examples 

But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)