dishonoured
Speech parts
1. dishonoured - Adjective
2. dishonoured - Verb
Meaning
dishonoured
simple past and past participle of dishonour
dishonoured (comparative more dishonoured, superlative most dishonoured)
Disgraced, defiled, treated with dishonour.
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Examples
He has come to the realization, too late to change things, that everything was done in vain, that everything has been pointless, that he will even die dishonoured and disgraced for his well-intentioned actions.
Saturninus is at first aghast, believing that Tamora is now dishonouring him as well; "What madam, be dishonoured openly,/And basely put it up without revenge?"
All Canadians are dishonoured by such shabby conduct by their national government.
In William Shakespeare 's play King Lear (c. 1600), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says "They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder": a conventional attitude at that time.
They entertain the followers and all sing of how Galitsky and his men abducted a young woman and how she pleaded to be allowed to return to her father without being dishonoured.
His strongest public condemnation of genocide was considered inadequate by the Allied Powers, while the Nazis viewed him as an Allied sympathizer who had dishonoured his policy of Vatican neutrality.