How To Use Dishonour In A Sentence
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She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
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To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history.
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Criticisms were made that the decision to honour or dishonour cheques was no longer made by experienced bankers with the necessary skills, but passed on to less experienced bank staff to cut costs and save time.
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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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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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It was dishonourable to’ — ‘Peace, young man,’ said Herries, more calmly than I might have expected; ‘the word dishonour must not be mentioned as in conjunction with my name.
Redgauntlet
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The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
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The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or if their family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some way bring dishonour on their family.
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This was his own decision with all the political toll that such a policy of dishonour and strategic nonsense will extract.
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In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant, because the design is not truth, but to honour or dishonour, which is done by noble or by vile comparisons.
Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
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To sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened would only dishonour those, the majority, who are a credit to the country they serve.
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‘Not only were you guilty of the offence of which you were convicted, but you were also in my view guilty of dishonourable conduct,’ he said.
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It was as if she felt on her lips the taste of dishonour.
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But the cheque was dishonoured by the bank concerned.
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Its main business was the safe but dull bills discounting - a sound and a profitable business as traders all over the country rarely ever dishonour their bills.
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a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
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Some of the leaders of the coup took their lives rather than face dishonour.
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After being dishonourably discharged from the US Marines in 1959, he moved to Russia, only to be refused citizenship and sent back to the US.
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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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How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
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The congressman's corruption dishonoured himself and his family.
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He took the view that presentment took place at the later time, as presentment had to be made to a person entitled to decide whether to pay or dishonour the instrument.
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Many others may not have been reported due to fear of dishonour, further humiliation or the high-handed dismissal of complaints.
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Consider the end of any temptation; this is Satan's end and sin's end, -- that is, the dishonour of God and the ruin of our souls.
Of Temptation
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The idea that they can even say those words without burning up at the shame of their own dishonour and double standards staggers me.
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Honourable members don't do anything dishonourable, but if they don't know the rules properly, then they could end up breaking them inadvertently.
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Rumours of corruption dishonoured the senator.
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Her actions have brought shame and dishonour on the profession.
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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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We have no idea what kinds of shops are going to be in it and while it may not be a desecration, it dishonours the memory of what happened there,’ she said.
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I went home with this girl once and her father asked, ‘Are your intentions honourable or dishonourable?’
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He was found guilty and dishonourably discharged from the army.
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The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
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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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I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no piece justificative more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the Quarterly Review for July,
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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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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Secondly, being convicted brought not only shame and dishonour on the accused, but on his wife and children as well.
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Secondly, being convicted brought not only shame and dishonour on the accused, but on his wife and children as well.
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‘It is a breach of faith with the world's poor, and a blot of dishonour on our international reputation,’ she said.
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In his denial, he treats a people as less than fully human and totally dishonours the dead.
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That the process involves the FCO in dishonesty, deviousness and dishonour is emphatically encapsulated in the apparent scheme whereby Brussels will delay proposals to scrap Britain's annual £3 billion rebate.
Archive 2007-12-23
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The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
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‘Nobody has made me any proposals in that sense,’ the ambassador said, noting that the allegations dishonour his reputation.
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Daring speculations fail; the struggle in unnatural competition with men of large capital, or dishonourable dealings, wears out at last the overtasked frame — life is spent in a whirl — death summons them, and finds them unprepared.
The Englishwoman in America
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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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Having thrown water bottles at each other in the most alien conduct of the House many wondered if there was any tolerance at all, or if in fact they had elected dishonourable people to make laws for the country.
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By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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[The dishonourable flight of the Spanish nauy; and the prudent aduice of the L. Admirall.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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'I dare say, my dear,' resumed the father, 'you will not do what we call thieving; but as I know there are many naughty boys in all schools, I am afraid they will teach you to commit dishonourable actions, and to tell you there is no harm in them, and that they are signs of cleverness and spirit, and qualifications very necessary for every boy to possess.'
Life and Perambulations of a Mouse
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He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
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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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If the grown man at times takes an in* terest in the amusements and sports of the child, and mixes in his pastimes for completely anbending his mind, that is no dishonour to him: but if he do so with manly earnestness, treat in« significant objects as weighty concerns, and re« solves in one and the same view to support the character of the child and the man, will that re - dound to his honour?
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
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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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Secondly, being convicted brought not only shame and dishonour on the accused, but on his wife and children as well.
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It seems that the bank operated a system of allowing the overdraft to go above the £60,000 by a further £10,000 without dishonouring cheques, but it naturally became concerned when the £60,000 limit was exceeded.
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To run the risk of being dishonoured at my age is untenable.
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The herald had wandered off into the forest, perhaps to nurse his sense of dishonour at his lord's conduct.
A TIME OF WAR
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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 is a rob - ber of the vileft fpecies, who degrades humanity, and dishonours the dignity and equity of executive juftice in a free government, by a condud fo lawlefs and barbarous; who thus ihuts up the avenoea of lenity, and fteals from the poor fettler in the colony, the hard earned fruits of induftry.
The Monthly Review
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Part of him, the public servant, knows that he is acting dishonourably, but his conscience tells him that he has no other option.
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He wept for that which had befallen him, but kept his affair secret, so none of his foes might exult over him nor any of his friends be troubled, knowing that, if he disclosed his secret, it would bring him naught but dishonour and contumely from the folk; wherefore he said in him self,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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 now tombled cleane from their aunciente renowne, and bewried in dishonour.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Moral dishonourable, harbor evil intentions, did not lead a qualification.
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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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But if he came, she would so shame and dishonour him, as no woman whatsoever should better schoole him.
The Decameron
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a nonjuror, are these remarkable words: "It must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect to mean arts and dishonourable shifts.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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He hoped they could come to an arrangement which would prevent the dishonour of his claiming its protection.
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He had to choose between death and dishonour.
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The complaint would be maintainable where the cheque is dishonoured with remark ‘Account Closed’.
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It would be dishonest and dishonourable to pretend otherwise.
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The one reliable prediction you can make about any group of human beings is that one or two will have a proclivity to cut corners, accept a bribe or be ready to pursue a dishonourable means to achieve their end.
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Does this impudent, dishonourable journalist think he is the equal of Tolstoy, physically, intellectually, artistically, or morally?
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This is permissible I suppose, but dishonourable, and remember, they did this after a two-month delay.
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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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There is evidence that the three planned from the outset to dishonour the bail undertakings, which they made only after diplomatic pressure.
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I decided way back at the beginning, back when I was still washing dishes in a barbecue joint in Harlem, that the work I did would never bring dishonour to my father's name.
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Damn ‘em, they don’t value all the ill words or dishonour in the world at a rush, so they but get the coin into their purses, though they were to have it in a shitten clout.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Criticisms were made that the decision to honour or dishonour cheques was no longer made by experienced bankers with the necessary skills, but passed on to less experienced bank staff to cut costs and save time.
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Many of the bigger sites claim to vet members' profiles, but there is often little to stop those with dishonourable or even criminal intentions from lying about themselves.
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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 shameless individual does not feel that painful emotion that arises out of the consciousness of something dishonourable, ridiculous, or indecorous in his/her conduct.
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Many others may not have been reported due to fear of dishonour, further humiliation or the high-handed dismissal of complaints.
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Indeed, if he chooses to stay on as boss despite his previous comments, he will cover himself in dishonour and will never be forgiven by many fans.
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The soldier received a dishonourable discharge for a disciplinary offence.
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He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
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Many of the bigger sites claim to vet members' profiles, but there is often little to stop those with dishonourable or even criminal intentions from lying about themselves.
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I think it's important to the achievements of our subsidised theatre that it shouldn't be dishonourable to fail.
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The complaint would be maintainable where the cheque is dishonoured with remark ‘Account Closed’.
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If he now goes back on that promise, that would be as dishonourable a traducing of his promise as that of Mr. Brown, perhaps the more so given the swiftness with which he has resiled from it.
Cameron's 27 Day Promise
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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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Killing them was a way of dealing with the grave dishonour and disgrace that they had visited on his family.
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You played a very dishonest and dishonourable part in that matter.
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He was not a dishonourable man, he was merely a professional.
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Both were dishonourably discharged from National Service in 1954 after spending much of their time in military prisons.
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The one reliable prediction you can make about any group of human beings is that one or two will have a proclivity to cut corners, accept a bribe or be ready to pursue a dishonourable means to achieve their end.
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Finally, as a matter of practice, banks dishonour cheques that have been outstanding for a long period of time.
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Better to die in glory than live in dishonour.
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He claims that they accused him of being a fool and implied he was a knave who was guilty of dishonourable conduct.
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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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But a dishonourable Dec you were, and a dishonourable Dec you...'
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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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 acted dishonourably and now is the time to act honourably.
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Its evil day must come at last; but let it come declaredly and openly, and let no dishonouring and false substitute deprive it of the funeral offices of memory.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no _pièce justificative_ more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the _Quarterly Review_ for July,
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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At the time he was back in Clydebank having been dishonourably discharged from the Royal Navy.
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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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Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.
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How dishonourable and reprehensible, and I am very surprised that you would deal with such a person as this man is evolving to be.
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The Liberal ‘Democrats’ also committed themselves in their 2005 manifesto to holding a referendum on the EU Constitution and thus join Gordon Brown in dishonour and dishonesty by having resiled from that clear promise.
Archive 2007-11-18
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Finally, as a matter of practice, banks dishonour cheques that have been outstanding for a long period of time.
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It's a shame to see it all play out in a movie that's mostly about making blandly obvious arguments about how bad and dishonourable racism is.
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The notable Mrs. Mittin contrived soon to so usefully ingratiate herself in the favour of Mr. Dennel, that, in the full persuasion she would save him half his annual expences, he married her: but her friend, Mr. Clykes, was robbed in his journey home of the cash which he had so dishonourably gained.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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It is illegal to dishonour bookings; that goes for restaurants as well as customers.
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You played a very dishonest and dishonourable part in that matter.
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Better to die in glory than live in dishonour.
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She could feel just such a smile twisting her mouth, a counterfeit coin to pay a debt of dishonour.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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If convicted, he faces up to seven years in a military prison, demotion and a dishonourable discharge.
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Routing those that came out of Capua against them, and thus procuring a quantity of proper soldiers' arms, they gladly threw away their own as barbarous and dishonourable.
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We might like the idea that we've only recently fallen from grace, but it only takes the merest, glancing knowledge of the past to realise that any heinous acts being practised today have a long and dishonourable history.
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To possess information of value and interest to the people and not disclose it is considered not only dangerous but dishonourable.
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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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It would dishonour my family if I didn't wear the veil.
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With every line of his statement, epic memories of past greatness were dishonoured and uprooted.
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Hesitant to do this thing which to him, by the strange standard of his warped code, spelled dishonour, he would and he would not; and while he paltered, was visited by an oddly vivid memory of the clear and candid eyes of Cecelia Brooke, seemed veritably to see them searching his own with their look of grieving wonder ... the eyes of one woman who had reckoned him worthy of her trust ....
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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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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Some of the leaders of the coup took their lives rather than face dishonour.
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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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Better to die in glory than live in dishonour.
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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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A paying bank may dishonour the cheque - refuse to pay it - if the customer is not in funds, or if there is not a sufficiently agreed overdraft at the time it is presented.
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Whereof I thoughte good to giue this aduertisemente: and waying with my selfe that by the publishing hereof no dishonour can dedounde to the illustre race of our noble kinges and Princes, ne yet to the blemishinge of the fame of that noble kinge, eternized for his victories and vertues in the auncient Annales, Chronicles and Monuments, forren and domesticall,
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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The congressman's corruption dishonoured himself and his family.
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You've brought enough dishonour on your family already without causing any more trouble.
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I therefore swore that I would never do anything to bring dishonour upon a woman.
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They dishonoured his contract and the new team certainly haven't covered themselves in glory.
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The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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He took the view that presentment took place at the later time, as presentment had to be made to a person entitled to decide whether to pay or dishonour the instrument.
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Union leaders accused management of dishonouring existing pay agreements.
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I decided way back at the beginning, back when I was still washing dishes in a barbecue joint in Harlem, that the work I did would never bring dishonour to my father's name.
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Rumours of corruption dishonoured the senator.
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He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
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With every line of his statement, epic memories of past greatness were dishonoured and uprooted.
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The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
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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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It's a haunting description, catching as it does both the whiff of dishonour and the sense of brave deeds never acknowledged that clings to our idea of the spy.
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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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If we take pleasure in judging then we are more guilty than the judged. If we feel, 'there, that's shown them' we dishonour Christ.
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Elsewhere (i. 55-62) the 'horsy' youth is spoken of as worse than the husband who connives at his wife's dishonour and pockets the reward of her shame.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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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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He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
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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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Machiavelli sometimes associates these passions and desires which are inherent to human nature with vice and corruption and immoral, blameworthy, wicked, and dishonourable conduct.
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Nick Clegg knows that he will look terrible and his party will be in uproar if he dishonours the pledges he made in opposition.
The fierce battle behind the scenes for the coalition's soul
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To the pain of defeat, Louis XV added the shame of dishonour.
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The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
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‘Nobody has made me any proposals in that sense,’ the ambassador said, noting that the allegations dishonour his reputation.
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I don't see any dishonour in this at all; hell, isn't it how Parliament is supposed to work?
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Union leaders accused management of dishonouring existing pay agreements.
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The government did not want to dishonour any great figure and bring politics into the field of education, he said.
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I can not tell what it is that letteth me, from causing thee to be caste foorthe amonges the Lions (cruell and capitall enemies of adulterie, amonges themselues) sithe thy pretence is, by violating my chastitie to dishonour the house, whereunto thou owest no lesse, then al the aduancements thou hast: from the taste whereof thou hast abandoned
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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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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The advisor threatened him with dishonourable discharge and demotion.
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It would dishonour the animals, he thought, if he refused to hunt them and partake of their life.
THE BROKEN GOD
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To the pain of defeat, Louis XV added the shame of dishonour.
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There was the abiding desire that they shouldn't play beneath themselves, be dishonourable or contemptuous of others.
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To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history.
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They were anxious to bring forward their good reputation, and they stressed that the perpetrator's acts had brought shame and dishonour on them.
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Killing them was a way of dealing with the grave dishonour and disgrace that they had visited on his family.
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We must be in it to avoid national dishonour and disgrace, for dishonour is the open door to disintegration and decay.
The War
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‘Not only were you guilty of the offence of which you were convicted, but you were also in my view guilty of dishonourable conduct,’ he said.
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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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It labours under the dishonour of being chosen by P.W. Botha, apartheid's penultimate kommandant, as a suitable place to ebb away the remainder of his uncelebrated days.
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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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The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
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In the West, contractual obligations are seldom dishonoured.
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She had not liked what Miss Wilmot had had to say on the subject of being revengeful and dishonourable.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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He hoped they could come to an arrangement which would prevent the dishonour of his claiming its protection.
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We might like the idea that we've only recently fallen from grace, but it only takes the merest, glancing knowledge of the past to realise that any heinous acts being practised today have a long and dishonourable history.
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The paper also notes that, within the older generation, there is a growing acknowledgement of the unacceptability of the use of force and the dishonour that force brings.
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To sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened would only dishonour those, the majority, who are a credit to the country they serve.
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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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Either way, I always feel guilty and dishonourable.
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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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The herald had wandered off into the forest, perhaps to nurse his sense of dishonour at his lord's conduct.
A TIME OF WAR
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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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We suspect he means to dishonour the agreement made three years ago.
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He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
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He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
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I had duly weighed, my first idea was to dart head first athwart this intrigue in which my dishonour was a certainty.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
