He adhered to the forms of his religion rather because he felt it would be dishonourable to change that of his fathers, than from any rational conviction or sincere belief of its mysterious doctrines.
This doctrine is dishonourable to our Maker, and lays a foundation for universal scepticism.
Every man, in short, who could raise himself to that dishonourable position, was captain of a troop of banditti, and counted it his chief honour to live upon the plunder of his neighbour.
Isabel, angered to the heart to hear him use the word Honour to express such dishonourable purposes, said, "Ha!
Angelo would not but by my yielding to his dishonourable love release my brother; and after much debate within myself, my sisterly remorse overcame my virtue, and I did yield to him.
For the trepidation of a general or leader is more dishonourable than the flight of a whole herd of private soldiers.
It is true when we came to the pacification which followed, I confess I was of the same mind the gentleman had been of; for we had better have fought and been beaten than have made so dishonourable a treaty without striking a stroke.
Harrison is incapable of committing a mean ordishonourable action.
But when I recalled my obscure parentage, of which Cornelius was perfectly ignorant; and the uncertainty of my future prospects, I felt that it would be dishonourable in me to advance my suit to the young lady.
If they have any dishonourable infirmities, they are not to be mentioned by children and servants.
A dangerous error, tending to the subversion of souls and kingdoms, and highly dishonourable to God.
As in the natural body we cover most carefully the most dishonourable parts, (for our comely parts have no need,) 1 Cor.
Remember, he accused you of dishonourable conduct, and he would add, of cowardice, if you failed to demand satisfaction for the insult!
He refused to do so, and of course forced me to brand him as guilty of dishonourable conduct.
It is a grossly dishonourable act, which I shall chastise as it deserves!
I hold such play dishonourable, and the man who practises it guilty of dishonourable conduct.
Do you know the fate of an officer who allows himself to be accused of dishonourable conduct?
If an officer should pocket calmly an accusation of dishonourable behaviour and not challenge his accuser, he would be outlawed from the corps of officers as a coward.
You had no right to accuse Herr von Heydeck of dishonourable conduct because you overheard him make use of certain expressions in conversation with an intimate friend.
And looking round the room she asked herself why she had ever come into it to commit a dishonourable act!
The mendacious Press talked much about a "dishonourable peace," as though any peace could be as dishonourable as a prolonged war.
It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality, and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist.
Nothing that is useful to man, and every thing that is dishonourable to his Maker.
To my mind it is one and the same, but I would not harshly exclude the view the world puts on things; and I use the world's language in saying that he could not do a dishonourable deed.
Eckart and two or three others made a spirited stand against the aristocratic party siding with Prince Otto, whose case was that I had played him a dishonourable trick to laugh at him.
In short, she imagined that Gerald must have committed some dishonourable act in the past.
And it is a person capable of an act you consider so dishonourable that you dare to propose to the electors of your district as their representative!
Certainly," said Father Payne, "but you must be certain that a man's sense of honour is lower than your own before you call him dishonourable for differing from you.
If a citizen thinks a treaty dishonourable, and if it is alsodishonourable for him to repudiate it, it seems to me he is dishonourable whatever he does.
But if he is called dishonourable for dissenting, then honour does not seem to me to be a real word at all, but only a term of abuse for a man who objects to some concerted plan.
Is it dishonourable for a citizen belonging, let us say, to the minority which is not represented by the particular Government which makes the treaty, to repudiate it?
He is obliged to consent for the sake of honour to a dishonourable thing being done.
But what I do not think that any of us has a right to do is to call a man dishonourable if he has more scruples than oneself.
It seems to me perilously like a director of a firm having to condone fraudulent practices, because it is dishonourable to give his fellow-directors away.
A man would look upon this and rightly as a dishonourable betrayal because it would wound his vanity and lower his personal prestige.
I will try not to form any opinion, Denzil; and some day perhaps things will be made plain, for it would break my heart to believe that you are a dishonourable man.
Then, sir, to my old-fashioned ideas you would be a dishonourable fellow, to cast away the woman who has only you to look to in the world, that you may put another woman who has taken your fancy in her place.
Dishonourable proposals were made to me in your name, but I did not believe them, for I deem you so virtuous that on no account would you dishonour one of your poor, humble subjects like me, but on the contrary protect her.
There would be one less dishonourable man in the army certainly, but who would have to bear the consequences of that?
He would have preferred not to have asked any more questions, but that would not do, so he said: "You know that it was your duty to inform the Court of Honour of the dishonourable acts of a fellow-officer which came to your ears.
I should sooner believe that you were the thief than that he could be guilty of a dishonourable act!
I candidly confess to you, Herr von Osternau, that I have led a life far from blameless, that I have foolishly squandered both time and money, but I swear to you that I have never been involved in any dishonourable transaction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonourable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
