Sentence examples for dishonoured from high-quality English sources.

• This weekend they dishonoured their legacy and memory.

• As he said during his trial, “Running the risk of being dishonoured at my age is unbearable.”

• It comes from Arkane Studios, who made Dishonoured, so expect acrobatic kills and lots of wild teleporting.

• The Deer Chief, for instance, was able to exact revenge on humans who dishonoured his people—the deer—during the hunt.

• Seamus Mallon, the party's deputy leader, said gravely that the unionists had “dishonoured the agreement and insulted its principles.”

• In other words, Mr Tapie, having dishonoured soccer and cheated his shareholders, does not deserve to be welcomed back into polite society.

• The jury was told that Sickles had armed himself with three guns and confronted his victim with the cry: “Key, you scoundrel, you have dishonoured my house—you must die!”

• And in New Place a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet, as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.

Use dishonoured in a sentence.

• It appears that some basic international banking concepts have failed to take root—such as the likelihood that nobody will accept a cheque that could be dishonoured on a technicality.

• Partisan redistricting has already “debased and dishonoured our democracy”, Justice Kagan wrote, “turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people”.

• 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.

• The siege of Gaza occupied much of the autumn; when the city at last surrendered, Alexander dishonoured the corpse of Batis, its commander, in the way that Achilles in the Iliad had treated the corpse of Hector.

• There were a number of suicides among the military officers and nationalists who felt themselves dishonoured, but the emperor’s prestige and personal will, once expressed, sufficed to bring an orderly transition.

• Denouncing the "hateful" groups like the Ku Klux Klan who he says have dishonoured the flag, he adds that people should be just as offended by the Union Jack, the Dutch flag or the Stars and Stripes, because they all flew for nations practising slavery.

• But also historical identity – is Franco the man who saved Spain from communist takeover even if he was brutal as an authoritarian ultra-Catholic ruler – or was his cruelty so criminal his name should be dishonoured, his monument pulled down, and his secret police bullies now put on trial?

• And it was reassuring to discover that Verdi's first surviving opera (his first opera, “Rocester”, is lost) concerned the outraged father of a dishonoured daughter, a theme which reappears in much of his subsequent work, notably in two of this year's productions, “Rigoletto” and “Simon Boccanegra”.

dishonoured sentence examples

• The Figaro in London launched a breathtakingly vile campaign, promising to inflict on Aldridge “such a chastisement as must drive him from the stage he has dishonoured, and force him to find in the capacity of footman or street-sweeper, that level for which his colour appears to have rendered him peculiarly qualified.”

• For if, my sweet Adeimantus, our youth seriously listen to such unworthy representations of the gods, instead of laughing at them as they ought, hardly will any of them deem that he himself, being but a man, can be dishonoured by similar actions; neither will he rebuke any inclination which may arise in his mind to say and do the like.

• Therefore the ancient Heathen did not thinke they Dishonoured, but greatly Honoured the Gods, when they introduced them in their Poems, committing Rapes, Thefts, and other great, but unjust, or unclean acts: In so much as nothing is so much celebrated in Jupiter, as his Adulteries; nor in Mercury, as his Frauds, and Thefts: of whose praises, in a hymne of Homer, the greatest is this, that being born in the morning, he had invented Musique at noon, and before night, stolen away the Cattell of Appollo, from his Herdsmen.

•   (1) I never put a cheque, received by me, on that file, unless I am anxious about it;   (2) All the cheques received by me, that are not marked with a cross, are payable to bearer;   (3) None of them are ever brought back to me, unless they have been dishonoured at the Bank;   (4) All of them, that are marked with a cross, are for amounts of over £100;   (5) All of them, that are not on that file, are marked “not negotiable”;   (6) No cheque of yours, received by me, has ever been dishonoured;   (7) I am never anxious about a cheque, received by me, unless it should happen to be brought back to me;   (8) None of the cheques received by me, that are marked “not negotiable,” are for amounts of over £100.