Sentence examples for a less honourable from inspiring English sources

Hanging was a less honourable penalty, and beneath that was being broken on the wheel, a horrible punishment that numerous anatomy-curious Renaissance painters would have witnessed.

Bicycles of any kind, on the other hand, have a much less honourable fictional heritage.

The agreement may also send a message to less honourable collectors around the world, who continue to buy and deal in illegally exported artefacts that form part of Peru's rich, if often officially neglected, cultural heritage.

It is about modern Holland's painful reconciliation of a war history that is less honourable than usually thought.

Mr Dopfner said the resulting agreement between the two parties was not a compromise but instead the Commission had "sanctioned the introduction of a business model, which in less honourable circles is called extortion".

However, his trust in less honourable men makes him a pawn in a ruthless plot.

For this is the allegation: that our honourable member, David Cameron, inserted his rather less honourable member into a pig.

Serving ministers involved in corruption scandals both new and old have gone unpunished, although some dubious government tenders have been cancelled after they were exposed in the local press.Some politicians use their office as a shield to allow them to pursue less honourable sidelines.

The other conspirators have various motives, less honourable and more straightforwardly political than Brutus's.

However, let no one think that the eight remaining collections are less than glorious, or that their authors are less honourable for their decision to stay on board.

Where firms have appointed themselves as executors they will normally stand down without charge if asked, though some less honourable ones may still try to charge their full fee".