Sentence examples for dishonoured from inspiring English sources

The word "dishonoured" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is the past tense form of the verb "dishonour," which means to bring shame or disgrace upon someone or something. Example: The politician was dishonoured when it was revealed that he had accepted bribes from a corporation. In this sentence, "dishonoured" is used to describe the politician's loss of respect and reputation due to the scandal. It shows that the word can be used to describe a negative event or action that causes someone or something to be viewed with less honor or esteem.

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dishonoured

verb

Past of dishonour

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The judge said it had been her habit to sign cheques to the casino for such sums, but the cheques signed that evening were dishonoured.

Cheques which she signed on the evening of 3 April 2012 in return for gambling chips were dishonoured, the court heard.

Henri Guaino, a deputy and former presidential adviser, went so far as to declare that the decision "dishonoured" the justice system and "tarnished" France.

So he gave in.The killing of women by male relatives who believe they have dishonoured the family eg, by getting pregnant outside wedlock or wearing revealing clothes—has haunted Turkey for centuries.

A new "friends of Libya" conference is needed, where the regional powers that have been using Libya as a proxy battlefield should be made to keep their previously dishonoured pledges to enforce an arms embargo.

He has since become a powerful symbol in other societies which in their own ways, and to varying degree have "dishonoured those virtues".In China some have reacted to his death by wondering whether a "Chinese Mandela" might not be languishing somewhere in a dingy prison cell.

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If deported, they are in danger not only of being re-trafficked but also of being shunned by their families for dishonouring them.

Playing air guitar on the desk would dishonour his previous calling and his current one.

Part of the problem, however, was that the dream itself was being destroyed by "the friends of big business, who dishonour the dream by saying that it has been realised" already.

To use the memory of a terrible crime to perpetrate further crime is to dishonour the original victim and ourselves.

Citing a paragraph in the book on the lurid private life of an unnamed crown prince, the court convicted its author of dishonouring Thailand's royal family.

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