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DISHONOURABLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonourableness mean?
• DISHONOURABLENESS (noun)
The noun DISHONOURABLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not deserving honor or respect
Familiarity information: DISHONOURABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not deserving honor or respect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
dishonorableness; dishonourableness
Hypernyms ("dishonourableness" is a kind of...):
unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dishonourableness"):
ignobility; ignobleness (the quality of being ignoble)
sleaziness (morally dishonorable)
disreputability; disreputableness; unrespectability (dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation)
Derivation:
dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)
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