dishonorable
adj1
US Without honor, or causing dishonor.
- I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]1849 December 15, Frederick William Robertson, Sermon 14, “The Principle of Spiritual Harvest”
- But, setting this view aside, dishonorable would it be in the South were she willing to abandon to shame the memory of brave men who with signal personal disinterestedness warred in her behalf, though from motives, as we believe, so deplorably astray.1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:
1 more example
- His sadistic self-torturings finally landed him in a pretty mess: still completely married, practically sure he was in love with Tillie, he made dishonorable proposals of marriage to two other women.1931 January 26, “Done to a Turn”, in Time:
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US Lacking respect for ethical principles.
- Synonyms
- disingenuous, grubby, ignoble
- Derived terms
- dishonorable discharge, dishonorableness, dishonorably