Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing dishonor; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
dishonour ; tending todisgrace .
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Examples
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One of the anonymice has pointed out that the Cato Institute is joining in on its new petition to President Obama, awarding a dishonorary PhD. to our old friend Dipl.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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One of the anonymice has pointed out that the Cato Institute is joining in on its new petition to President Obama, awarding a dishonorary PhD. to our old friend Dipl.
Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009
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Bush, who has pushed so many boundaries these last seven years, may now also have pioneered a new phenomenon in higher education: the dishonorary degree (or, The Dis, for short).
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That picture almost makes me want to turn in or burn my own earned doctorate sash, unless there is a dishonorary Doctorate of Inhumanities that I was not aware of.
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