How To Use Dishonored In A Sentence
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The absence of a clear understanding about those root causes largely explains why several would-be peace agreements ended up dishonoured or discarded.
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The Bank dishonoured a number of cheques drawn by its client and sent a fax contending that his debit balance was in excess of his facility.
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However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
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Although he apparently waited for confirmation from his bank that the cheque had cleared before making the payments, he was subsequently advised that the cheque was fraudulent and had been dishonoured.
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The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
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But the cheque was dishonoured by the bank concerned.
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The drawer, by drawing the instrument, admits the existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse; and engages that on due presentment the in - strument will be accepted or paid, or both, according to its tenor, and that if it is dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor are duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent in - dorser who may be comjoelled to pay it.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet.
The Golden Asse
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If anything you have dishonored me for bringing me to be a part of this family.
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The congressman's corruption dishonoured himself and his family.
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Rumours of corruption dishonoured the senator.
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If the drawer closes his account with the latter bank in the meantime, the cheque will be dishonoured by that bank due to the collecting bank's dilatoriness.
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The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
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His language to the wife whom he still loves while believing himself dishonored by her is such that "a beggar, in his drink, could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
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From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
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Meantime, the young man's life is blighted, his name dishonoured, his family plunged into unspeakable grief.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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Last year 31 cheques in the name of development had been dishonoured.
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` ` May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured, '' said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, ` ` if thou shalt have reason to complain of me!
Ivanhoe
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To run the risk of being dishonoured at my age is untenable.
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But as we know, both profits and prophets in our own country are liable to be dishonoured, however well disposed.
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He has now discovered that the cheque has been dishonoured and that the man is in possession of the Renoir.
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Goaded by Kira, Asana draws his sword inside the Shogun's castle, an act prohibited by law, and is forced to commit hara-kiri, leaving his family and samurai retainers dishonored.
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“So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz’s money,” George interposed.
Vanity Fair
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He dishonored his team by cheating during the competition.
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To run the risk of being dishonoured at my age is untenable.
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Although he apparently waited for confirmation from his bank that the cheque had cleared before making the payments, he was subsequently advised that the cheque was fraudulent and had been dishonoured.
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He has no childlike heart, no love to God, who can hear his name dishonoured and be silent.
The Lord's Prayer
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But as we know, both profits and prophets in our own country are liable to be dishonoured, however well disposed.
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The complaint would be maintainable where the cheque is dishonoured with remark ‘Account Closed’.
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Accordingly, eight cheques were issued to him under various denominations but they were dishonoured by the bank with remarks ‘payment stopped by drawer’.
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The leader spoke out against ‘crimes of honor,’ specifically the murder of a woman by her husband whom she had allegedly dishonored by immodest or otherwise unacceptable behavior.
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Dishonoured lies his grave; naught as yet hath it received of drink outpoured or myrtle-spray, but bare of ornament his tomb is left.
Electra
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The complaint would be maintainable where the cheque is dishonoured with remark ‘Account Closed’.
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He could use bribery, blackmail, and other forms of coercion to keep his dishonored promises in circulation.
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It was recognized that such a marking was equivalent to payment, and that a marked instrument could not be returned as dishonoured.
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Therefore, by definition, “dishonored memories” is a variable cost, as the idea of dishonor and memory would change according to the course of action.
More Sunk-Cost Thinking on Iraq War - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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He has conducted the king's affairs in a manner so contrary to that of his predecessors that he is at this moment suspected by the clergy, hateful to the grandees of the state, hounded to the death by the heads of finance (_la haute finance_), dishonored amongst the magistracy.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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Now, her brother, a soldier named Valentine, vowed revenge against the lover who had dishonored his sister.
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I think if someone is totally dishonoured in their private life, you should be able to decide if you want them to lead you.
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Once a cheque has been dishonoured, the collecting bank is entitled to reverse the provisional credit in its customer's account.
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I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
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Quite rightly we did not want our national flag to be dishonoured or cheapened in any way.
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As the branch had, functionally, agreed to negotiate or collect the cheque, it had a collecting bank's right of recourse when the cheque was dishonoured.
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If anything you have dishonored me for bringing me to be a part of this family.
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He dishonored the uniform and did not deserve to be a marine.
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However, the reality is far from ideal in that the principle has been quite often dishonored, mostly in cases involving powerless ordinary people.
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He could use bribery, blackmail, and other forms of coercion to keep his dishonored promises in circulation.
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Accordingly, eight cheques were issued to him under various denominations but they were dishonoured by the bank with remarks ‘payment stopped by drawer’.
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That the Liberal brand today is dirtied and dishonored is unquestionable, and an insult to the nation of people its leaders pledged to serve.
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With every line of his statement, epic memories of past greatness were dishonoured and uprooted.
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‘The Government has dishonoured that promise, just as they dishonoured the housing commitments in the previous agreement,’ he said.
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The Bank dishonoured a number of cheques drawn by its client and sent a fax contending that his debit balance was in excess of his facility.
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The title explains a lot - a dishonoured soccer champ wants to assemble and coach a winning team to confront his nemesis, while mouthy yet impecunious martial artist Sing wants to spread the word of kung fu.
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The congressman's corruption dishonoured himself and his family.
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They dishonoured his contract and the new team certainly haven't covered themselves in glory.
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Rumours of corruption dishonoured the senator.
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With every line of his statement, epic memories of past greatness were dishonoured and uprooted.
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The leader spoke out against ‘crimes of honor,’ specifically the murder of a woman by her husband whom she had allegedly dishonored by immodest or otherwise unacceptable behavior.
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He has now discovered that the cheque has been dishonoured and that the man is in possession of the Renoir.
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When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police.
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Better yet, you never have to worry about having a cheque being dishonoured.
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Lack of consensus about the root causes of the recurrent internal wars largely explains why many peace agreements have been dishonoured or not sustained.
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In the first three months of 1987 a number of the company's cheques were dishonoured on presentation.
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However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
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The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
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Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured, is an unpaid seller.
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Have the floors of our nation's television studios ever been more littered by dishonored prognostications than in the past twenty-four months?
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For a long time, the people lived under a martial law rule that dishonored human rights.
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However, the reality is far from ideal in that the principle has been quite often dishonored, mostly in cases involving powerless ordinary people.
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A number of those cheques were dishonoured because there were insufficient funds, but she was able to continue because of good financial history.
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Once a cheque has been dishonoured, the collecting bank is entitled to reverse the provisional credit in its customer's account.
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In the West, contractual obligations are seldom dishonoured.
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The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these
Michael Strogoff
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I think if someone is totally dishonoured in their private life, you should be able to decide if you want them to lead you.
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With every line of his statement, epic memories of past greatness were dishonoured and uprooted.
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Quite rightly we did not want our national flag to be dishonoured or cheapened in any way.
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But the cheque was dishonoured by the bank concerned.
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A number of those cheques were dishonoured because there were insufficient funds, but she was able to continue because of good financial history.
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So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartzs money, George interposed.
XXI. A Quarrel about an Heiress
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“May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured,” said
Ivanhoe
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He dishonored the uniform and did not deserve to be a marine.
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‘The Government has dishonoured that promise, just as they dishonoured the housing commitments in the previous agreement,’ he said.
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He knew he had disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for.
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A week later, still hesitating in a rather noticeable manner before sitting down, the errant batman discovered that his pay-cheque was also dishonoured.
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But I, from regard to my former husband, am throwing myself down in suppliant wise before this tomb of Proteus, praying him to guard my husband's honour, that, though through Hellas I bear a name dishonoured, at least my body here may not incur disgrace.
Helen
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Accordingly, they fetched him in fetters, and indeed the king's anger was upstirred against him by the Minister's speech and he was troubled; so he said to him, "O base of birth, thou hast dishonoured us and marred our mention, and needs must I do away thy life from the world.
Arabian nights. English
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People issue cheques but many a time these are dishonoured.
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For a long time, the people lived under a martial law rule that dishonored human rights.
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But he yesterday confirmed that his salary cheque had been dishonoured on May 16, the day after it had been deposited in Pretoria.
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Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform.
9/11
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In 1995 the science historian Gerald L. Geison ran a story in the New York Times illustrating that Pasteur gave a misleading account on his preparation of the anthrax vaccine (shall he be dishonored).
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Last year 31 cheques in the name of development had been dishonoured.
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When a bill is dishonoured by non-acceptance or by non-payment, the holder has to take certain prescribed steps.
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Indiscreet and precarious tonsures have both dishonored the monachal habit and caused the name of Christ to be blasphemed.
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In 1995 the science historian Gerald L. Geison ran a story in the New York Times illustrating that Pasteur gave a misleading account on his preparation of the anthrax vaccine (shall he be dishonored).
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His army career is in tatters, his regiment and family are dishonoured and his girlfriend has reportedly left him.
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May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured," said Brian de
Ivanhoe
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So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz's money," George interposed.
Vanity Fair
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The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these "eagles" of the highway.
Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar
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Each time such a duty was dishonoured, justice suffered and therefore freedom was imperilled... But could Elham be right?
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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Even if banks have permitted drawings against the cheque, they will not be able to sue the drawer on a dishonoured cheque in the event of being unable to recover from their own customer.
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Now, her brother, a soldier named Valentine, vowed revenge against the lover who had dishonored his sister.
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They dishonoured his contract and the new team certainly haven't covered themselves in glory.
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He knew he had disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for.
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I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiaochow, Manchuria, South Africa & the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies.
Mark Twain
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A better feeling, however, regarding labor and laborers, is beginning to prevail: these motions, which breathe the very spirit of slavery whence they are borrowed, are in a word dishonored, while they are gradually losing their hold on the heart, and their influence on the life.
Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
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In the West, contractual obligations are seldom dishonoured.
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S: (v) dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame (bring shame or dishonor upon) “he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime”
Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims
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Better yet, you never have to worry about having a cheque being dishonoured.
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You have in my estimate, dishonoured the high office you hold and diminished our democracy.
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The defendant stopped the cheque, which was accordingly dishonoured by the drawee bank.
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But he yesterday confirmed that his salary cheque had been dishonoured on May 16, the day after it had been deposited in Pretoria.
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Mr Jones said while he and his wife had been paid back the money they gave the man, they still lost more £6,000, after being forced to sell their timeshare when the deal was dishonoured.
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The absence of a clear understanding about those root causes largely explains why several would-be peace agreements ended up dishonoured or discarded.
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People issue cheques but many a time these are dishonoured.
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“What avails it to me that I have been of late the envoy of princes, when, ere night, I shall be a gibbeted and dishonoured corpse?”
The Talisman
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States of America after the war and during the period of reconstruction, he would have been designated, in the picturesque slang of the period, as a "scalawag"; for he not only deserted Napoleon in his final defeat and deepest woe, but joined his enemies, took office from the victors, perverted his public trust to private gain, and ended his career dishonored in the estimation of all true men.
Reminiscences of the Civil War
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When a bill is dishonoured by non-acceptance or by non-payment, the holder has to take certain prescribed steps.
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Then have you heard his name dishonored, found his tomb empty when you went there to pray?
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
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Quite rightly we did not want our national flag to be dishonoured or cheapened in any way.
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Have you afterwards heard his name dishonored, have you found his tomb empty when you went to pray beside it?
The Social Cancer
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Lack of consensus about the root causes of the recurrent internal wars largely explains why many peace agreements have been dishonoured or not sustained.
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Mr Jones said while he and his wife had been paid back the money they gave the man, they still lost more £6,000, after being forced to sell their timeshare when the deal was dishonoured.
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Except where it is dishonoured, its clearance involves a minimum of paperwork for all concerned.
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But his reputation as a bad head of household dishonored him, and his undutiful behavior toward his mother followed him into the courtroom.
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he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime
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From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
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He dishonored the uniform and did not deserve to be a marine.
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A week later, still hesitating in a rather noticeable manner before sitting down, the errant batman discovered that his pay-cheque was also dishonoured.
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His army career is in tatters, his regiment and family are dishonoured and his girlfriend has reportedly left him.
