dishonorable

Adjective

Meaning

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dishonest ignoble dishonourable low base crooked rotten mean evil wrong corrupt notorious foul dirty infamous
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Antonyms

honorable royal queen august high right
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Phrases with the word

dishonorable way of living less dishonorable

Examples

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Epictetus

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is. Anton Chekhov

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. H. L. Mencken

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. Millard Fillmore

Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution. James Madison

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. Samuel Richardson

Close letter words and terms

Dishong dishonnour dishonor dishonorable discharge dishonorable way of living dishonorableness