Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dishonorable.
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- noun The property of being
dishonorable .
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- noun the quality of not deserving honor or respect
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Examples
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Nothing, except that strange notion of the "dishonorableness" of asking a woman's love when one has nothing but love to give her in return.
The Laurel Bush Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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The man who has learned to take pride in making sacrifice hits is ripe to respond to the growing sense of the dishonorableness of making personal profit the aim of business or of politics.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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"O Papa, never mind about the dishonorableness," said Adelaide.
The Happiest Time of Their Lives Alice Duer Miller 1908
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This country has had enough, from the bottom up, and back down again, of ignorance, stupidity and, most importantly, dishonorableness.
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