"lost honor" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or person who has had their honor or reputation damaged or taken away. Example: "The politician's scandal caused him to lose all his honor in the eyes of the public."
The best account of Lebed's life is his autobiography, "I Pity Our Great Power," which is a lament for his country's lost honor and his own hard times.
"Throughout the day, he will pay tribute to those we lost, honor the Americans who responded on that day and who served in harm's way over the last decade," the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said at his daily briefing on Tuesday.
If this is true, then what are we to think when a community or an individual has lost honor, dignity and respect as a result of some crime or injustice, and the offending community or individual offers money by way of restitution?
Heath Ledger (above), as the dashing Harry Feversham seeking to reclaim his good name as a British officer, joins a cavalry charge in the Sudan in Shekhar Kapur's "Four Feathers," the tale of lost honor, adventure and military derring-do in the heyday of Queen Victoria's empire.
The lost honor was sought with utmost vigor in economic development.
What the president has done makes it possible to restore our lost honor.
But once tiny, pointed feet became a difficult-to-attain ideal of feminine beauty, an obstacle to infidelity and a mark of elevated social status, there was no way for parents in the upper social strata to abandon the practice without losing honor — and reducing their daughters' marriage prospects.
We lost our honor and our value system.
Somewhere between then and now we have lost our honor.
This election may go down in history as the moment when truth and lies lost their honor and stigma, respectively.
He looked out into the lights and said quietly, "I never lost my honor".
