Sentence examples for been dishonoured from inspiring English sources
verb
To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
- You have dishonoured the family.
And how will they judge if those pledges have been dishonoured?
"The temple has once again been dishonoured today," the spokesman Prem Singh Chandumajra told reporters.
The killing of women by relatives who feel their family has been dishonoured is a widespread problem in the country.
But there is deep concern among their families that their story has been dishonoured in a recent musical play, Country Song, directed by one of Australia's most celebrated playwrights and theatre creators, Wesley Enoch.
The government has been dishonouring agreements with the south since the 1960s, and most southerners believe that self-determination is their best guarantee against future betrayals.
Therefore when a family is dishonoured, we basically saying, the father/brother/kins men are dishonoured.
The nation is dishonoured again by its keepers.
For ordinary southerners it is talismanic, even sacred; having cost 2m dead, it cannot be dishonoured.
Cheques which she signed on the evening of 3 April 2012 in return for gambling chips were dishonoured, the court heard.
Many are forced to marry their assailants; others kill themselves rather than live with the social stigma of being "dishonoured".
But shame existed in the heroic world of Homer, shame at falling short, shame at being dishonoured.
