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dishonor

/dis-on-er/US // dɪsˈɒn ər //

辱骂,不名誉,侮辱,不光彩的事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
    • : disgrace; ignominy; shame: His arrest brought dishonor to his family.
    • : an indignity; insult: to do someone a dishonor.
    • : a cause of shame or disgrace: He is a dishonor to his family.
    • : Commerce. failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a bill of exchange or note to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of honor; disgrace; bring reproach or shame on.
    • : Commerce. to fail or refuse to honor or pay.
    • : to rape or seduce.

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Examples

  • After the liberal victory in 1936, an army officer named Francisco Franco declared himself to be the only person who could save the country from dishonor and ruin.

  • The stigma of sexual assault runs deep in Syrian culture as it does across the Middle East; rape is shaming and casts dishonor.

  • THE DISHONOR OF HONOR KILLINGS Imagine a young woman killed by her own relatives for failing to obey.

  • The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  • We witnessed rape, dishonor and the destruction of families.

  • I felt my death would spare my wife, daughter and myself the dishonor the rape brought upon us.

  • Better her death, better mine, better the destruction of us all, than such dishonor to the purest thing heaven ever made.

  • Nor have you denied this; you have confessed you desired his hurt, you have boasted you desired his death and dishonor.

  • She did not relish the idea that he had been defeated in the primaries; in her mind defeat was inseparable from dishonor.

  • He even took advantage of Qocaib's absence to dishonor his wife, who bore him a son.

  • A being so gentle and so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor.