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How to use dishonour in a sentence

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Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
I therefore swore that I would never do anything to bring dishonour upon a woman.
Many others may not have been reported due to fear of dishonour, further humiliation or the high-handed dismissal of complaints.
The idea that they can even say those words without burning up at the shame of their own dishonour and double standards staggers me.
They were anxious to bring forward their good reputation, and they stressed that the perpetrator's acts had brought shame and dishonour on them.
Killing them was a way of dealing with the grave dishonour and disgrace that they had visited on his family.
Secondly, being convicted brought not only shame and dishonour on the accused, but on his wife and children as well.
Each is an epic journey of passion, honour and dishonour, rooted in the pages of Greek mythology, with strong language and violence.
This was his own decision with all the political toll that such a policy of dishonour and strategic nonsense will extract.
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.
To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history.
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.
The government did not want to dishonour any great figure and bring politics into the field of education, he said.
The purposes with which they are set on foot are profit, honour, or avoidance of loss or dishonour.
In private my friend often rails against her family's demands, but publicly she is too afraid to dishonour them.
There is evidence that the three planned from the outset to dishonour the bail undertakings, which they made only after diplomatic pressure.
Every record I can find seems to think this was unjust, but the monks were intent upon his dishonour, for they blamed him.
Finally, as a matter of practice, banks dishonour cheques that have been outstanding for a long period of time.
To use the memory of a terrible crime to perpetrate further crime is to dishonour the original victim and ourselves.
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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Where and to what does Hemsworth's benevolence point, dishonour or banishment?
Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss.
Would I, her daughter, break my word, would I dishonour myself by jilting a man I had pledged myself to marry?
Nor shall we do dishonour to this realm, nor be unthankful for these benefits.
It must be agonising to you, and there would be dishonour as well as pain to me, in witnessing that agony.
Besides that, I glory in contemning a man who had thoughts to my dishonour.
Perhaps, if the dishonour had been done to her, but it was done long before her day.
What do you suppose must have been my feelings, after this rejection, at the thought of my own dishonour?
You shall answer to me for that word, though it entail a yet worse dishonour to meet you.
Why imbrue himself straightway with the blood of Violante and Pietro, who were not accomplices in the pretended dishonour?
That it would be his own loss, if he destroyed it, and redound to his utter dishonour.
Inglethorp have preferred to go unavenged rather than have such terrible dishonour fall upon the name of Cavendish.
Parents are afraid that the girls may become unchaste and thus dishonour themselves and their families.
Why, then, does any dishonour attach to a beneficent occupation?
No breath of dishonour has reached the name of De Lloseta de Mallorca.
And it will dishonour the truth which you deceitfully profess.
Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank?
The company, of course, failed, which meant ruin and dishonour.
The death of his father, mela, was also stained with dishonour.
Bethink thee thou art working against thyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own ruin.
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