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Definition: Dishonourable |
DishonourableAdjective1. Lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge". 2. Not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds". 3. Morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dishonourable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: DishonourableSynonyms: base (adj), dishonorable (adj), immoral (adj), unethical (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: honorable (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dishonourable |
| Specialty definitions using "dishonourable": criminal defamation ♦ Machiavellism. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I know that you can do nothing dishonourable, and that you have always been a man of God. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It is dishonourable and unmanly |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dishonourable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dishonourable" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dishonourable": dishonourable discharge. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "dishonourable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | turpërues (discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i turpëruar (ashamed, dishonorable, hangdog, humiliated, shamefaced, stained), i çnderuar (dishonorable), çnderues (defamatory, dishonorable). (various references) | |
Arabic | معيب (defective, dishonorable, infamous, inglorious), مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, humiliating, ignominious, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shameless), شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нечестен (cammed, crooked, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dodgy, faithless, false, ignominious, low down, screwy, twisty, unfair, wildcat), непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, fishy, foul, oblique, shady, sharp, twisty, underhand), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Czech | potupný (defamatory, degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, ignominious, infamous), neèestný (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, improper, low-minded), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous), bezectný (despicable, dishonorable). (various references) | |
Dutch | oneervol ontslag (dishonorable discharge, dishonourable discharge). (various references) | |
Finnish | kunniaton (infamous). (various references) | |
French | déshonorant (disgraceful, disreputable). (various references) | |
German | unehrenhaft (dishonorable, ignoble, ignominious, inglorious), ehrlos (dishonorable, dishonourably). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyalázatos (abominable, damnable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonour, disreputable, monstrous, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, rotter), becstelen (dishonest, dishonorable, ignominious, infamous, knavish, nefarious, shabby, snide, stigmatic, unprincipled, unrighteous). (various references) | |
Italian | disonorevole (discreditable, discreditably, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, shameful). (various references) | |
Manx | nearagh (disgraceful, disreputable, ignominious, self-conscious), meeonnoragh (dishonest, dishonest person, dishonour). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vanærende (ignominious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishonourableday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desonroso (discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, ill-spoken), indigno (dishonorable, outrageous, scandal, shameful, undeserving, undignified, unmeet, unworthy, vile, worthless). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezonorant (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonoring, dishonouring, disreputable, infamous, inglorious), necurat (accursed, cursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious, unclean). (various references) | |
Russian | бесчестный (disgraceful, dishonorable, infamous, rascally). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nečastan (dishonest, dishonorable). (various references) | |
Spanish | deshonroso (discreditable, discreditably, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanhedrande (discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, inglorious), skamlig (disgraceful, dishonorable, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, shameful), ohederlig (bent, crooked, crookedness, dishonest, dishonorable, nasty, unfair). (various references) | |
Turkish | rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), onursuz (dishonorable, disreputable, undignified), onur kırıcı (degrading, discreditable, infra dig, infradig, injurious, insulting), namussuz (dishonest, dishonorable, faithless, rascal, rascally, shady, tortuous, unchaste, uncleanly), şerefsiz (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonored, inglorious, undignified). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | безчесний (dishonorable, tortuous), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhục nhã (disgraceful), l m ô danh (disreputable), không biết gì l danh dự, hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, meanly, picayune, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), đáng hổ thẹn đê tiện, ô nhục (disgraceful, ignominious, infamous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dishonorable. | |
-3 letters: bandoliers, blandisher, boundaries, bounderish, honourable. | |
-4 letters: abolished, abolisher, banderols, bandolier, bilanders, birdhouse, brushland, burnished, burnoosed, doornails, erosional, hobnailed, honorable, husbander, inhaulers, insurable, laborious, laundries, nailbrush, nourished, roadhouse, soilborne, soundable, unbridles, unloaders, unridable, urbanised. | |
-5 letters: adhesion, ailerons, airbound, airholes, aleurons, alienors, aneroids, audibles, banderol, bandores, banished, banisher, baronies, baudrons, bedouins, bedrails, bedsonia, beshroud. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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