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Example sentences for "dishonored"

Lexicographically close words:
dishonestly; dishonesty; dishonor; dishonorable; dishonorably; dishonoring; dishonors; dishonour; dishonourable; dishonourably
  1. Bouteville dishonored for having suffered death on the Place de Greve.

  2. But I am the man, sire, who has been expected at the Minimes, sire, during the last hour and more; and I shall be dishonored if I do not go.

  3. Thus, whichever way I turn, I find only sadness and sharp regrets; everything is blighted, dishonored for me.

  4. This mannish queen was jealous of the fame of the old Chancellor, and dishonored herself by dishonoring him.

  5. No woman ever dishonored her parentage more than this daughter, known in history as Queen Christina of Sweden.

  6. Then, like a coward, you dishonored me in the dark.

  7. Yes, Bertha and Hector had deceived, had dishonored him.

  8. Perhaps she perceived that she was Hector's revenge on her husband, and that he only loved in her the dishonored wife of an envied friend.

  9. May be; but will she be any the less dishonored and forever lost?

  10. His farther punishment was of a kind somewhat differing from those which are common to armies, by which the profession of arms is sometimes quite as much dishonored as the criminal.

  11. There is, and a very good law for that corner of the globe were it only administered; for the moment he robbed the Imperial post and dishonored a Turkish woman, he was found worthy of death.

  12. God, eternally constrained to exist in His creatures, is no less dishonored than in His former position as a workman.

  13. On the King's death, the Duchesse de Valentinois was shamelessly deserted and dishonored by the Connetable de Montmorency, a man in every respect beneath his reputation.

  14. A daughter dead in her honeymoon will be almost as great a grief to him as a dishonored one.

  15. And either dead or dishonored he must find her, when he comes here in search of the child he cannot long forget.

  16. No other earthly system may follow her proud example; for all of them are delivered, as systems, into death, to a dishonored place among the lowest in society.

  17. They shall bring thee down to a dishonored oblivion, and materially and religiously thou shalt die the deaths of those slain in the roaring waves of anarchy.

  18. If I repel it, and I shall repel it, will it not have dishonored me, ruined me forever?

  19. Me daughter to be jilted, and me gray hairs dishonored by an apothecary's son.

  20. Willing was he to die, and to die dishonored by the many.

  21. In a word, instead of honoring the female sex, the Spartans suppressed and dishonored it.

  22. But for that Home, I should, to-day, have been filling a dishonored grave.

  23. Illustration: Alcohol and Gambling bury their victim in an untimely and dishonored grave.

  24. It was almost as if Iceland had been dishonored in the eyes of the world, sir.

  25. If Satan tempts you with the treasures of this life, remember that wealth and power are only for a day, while a dishonored name is for a thousand years.

  26. Neither wealth nor education can repair the wrong of a dishonored birth.

  27. The Cornelii, for example, always buried their dead until the dictator required his body to be burned for fear that his bones might be disinterred and dishonored by his enemies, as he had dishonored those of Marius.

  28. He has a pack on his back and a staff in his hand; his face is painted, and is habitually dishonored with dirt thrown upon it by boys.

  29. President Van Buren had dishonored his administration and defied the moral sense of the civilized world by his efforts to prostitute our foreign policy to the service of slavery and the slave trade.

  30. His maudlin speech on the 22d of February to the political mob which called on him, branding as traitors the leaders of the party which had elected him, completely dishonored him in the opinion of all Republicans, and awakened general alarm.

  31. We will not allow our country to be dishonored by any other.

  32. Well has Andrew Carnegie expressed the modern view: "Our country cannot be dishonored by any other country, or by all the powers combined.

  33. To escape being forced into a dishonored grave!

  34. Is he not approved to the height of a villain, who hath slandered, scorned, dishonored thy kinswoman.

  35. For oh, Herbert, between me and them there seems to yawn a dishonored grave!

  36. As to the notable meeting in London, had the delegates been the highest and largest minded and most cultured of their sex, and had their cause been the noblest, they and it would have been dishonored by the method of its presentation.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.