DISHONOURABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonourable mean? 

• DISHONOURABLE (adjective)
  The adjective DISHONOURABLE has 1 sense:

1. lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor

  Familiarity information: DISHONOURABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHONOURABLE (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)

Derivation:

dishonourableness (the quality of not deserving honor or respect)

 Context examples 

I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If he abuses my confidence, he commits a dishonourable action, Mr. Copperfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The queen would have me sit upon one of these chairs, but I absolutely refused to obey her, protesting I would rather die than place a dishonourable part of my body on those precious hairs, that once adorned her majesty’s head.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As to what restraint the apprehensions of disgrace in the corps might throw on a dishonourable elopement with her, I am not able to judge; for I know nothing of the effects that such a step might produce.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We were to keep our secret from Mr. Spenlow; but I am sure the idea never entered my head, then, that there was anything dishonourable in that.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)