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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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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. Source: Internet

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?" Source: Internet

All Canadians are dishonoured by such shabby conduct by their national government. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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