Sentence examples for dishonourable to from inspiring English sources

"I think it's dishonourable to women," she told Emine.

It is wasteful and dishonourable to not take joy in them.

He has concluded that if his venture in Iraq were to end in unambiguous strategic failure, it would be dishonourable to carry on as prime minister.

I think it's dishonourable to women, I think you just have to be the age you are and live with it.

As it happens, the idea for such a system has been around since the days of Adam Smith, who called it "the measure which is both least dishonourable to the debtor, and least hurtful to the creditor".

Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1952, she elegantly declared that it was "indecent and dishonourable" to name names in order to save herself, particularly when she did not feel she had done anything wrong.

The director-general, Lord Hall, makes a truly dishonourable attempt to pretend that being forced to take on the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s, equating to 20% of the corporation's current funding, is not a bad thing really.

One correspondent borrowed John Cleese's famous line, stating "the bleedin' obvious," to describe the role of second banana in the box, giving a particularly dishonourable mention to the BBC's Mark Bright.

What he needs now is to draw the correct psychological lessons from today's chastening but far from dishonourable experience, to abandon caginess and simply play every point against Roger Federer as if it might be his last.

The French government rejected the idea, however, as an atrocious and dishonourable way to fight.

He said he was defending his reputation with the article: I am explaining how someone can give a £15m gift and then go back on it – that seems a dishonourable thing to do and I look cowardly and untrustworthy.