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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishonour.

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Examples

  • Myers's comedy, about an ice hockey player who enlists the help of a mystic guru to help him turn around his professional and personal fortunes, earned seven nominations for next month's eve-of-Oscars "dishonours" on 21 February.

    iac entertainment news 2009

  • 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 Andrew Rawnsley 2010

  • You heard from a victim's brother who says that releasing him albeit a supposedly a dying man dishonours those lives.

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009 2009

  • Turning it into “dress up day” not only dishonours those that lived and died in slavery, but all the blacks in North America that continue to battle against racism.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009

  • These 14 women died because of sexism and patriarchy and it dishonours their memory that this movie is not told from their perspective.

    Polytechnique: Of Course We Need A Male Perspective Renee 2009

  • The pro life movement dishonours these decisions and regularly presents it as a selfish whim on the part of mothers.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Renee 2009

  • Turning it into “dress up day” not only dishonours those that lived and died in slavery, but all the blacks in North America that continue to battle against racism.

    Cotton Picking Day Renee 2009

  • These 14 women died because of sexism and patriarchy and it dishonours their memory that this movie is not told from their perspective.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009

  • The pro life movement dishonours these decisions and regularly presents it as a selfish whim on the part of mothers.

    Pro-Life Scam Preys Upon Womens Grief Renee 2009

  • I consider sex as the possibility of women and men engaging as 'equals' where as pornography usually dishonours women, men, children or even animals.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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