DISHONOR in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for DISHONOR, such as:
1. In both cases, dishonor for him, Javert.
2. Then do your best to keep our name free from dishonor.
3. There's too much honor in her to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.
4. He is weary of me and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior to me.
5. But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
2. Then do your best to keep our name free from dishonor.
3. There's too much honor in her to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.
4. He is weary of me and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior to me.
5. But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
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Meanings and Examples of DISHONOR
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dishonor
v. bring shame or dishonor upon
v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 "Add conceit to dishonor," he said.
2 There's too much honor in her to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.
3 She remembered irrelevantly Rhett's drunken remark: "She can't conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves."
4 Without salve, he could not, he though, were the sore badge of his dishonor through life.
5 Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6 In both cases, dishonor for him, Javert.
7 Allow me, then, to avoid dishonor by death; let me take refuge in martyrdom.
8 "Blood washes out dishonor," said Morrel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
9 Then do your best to keep our name free from dishonor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
10 It would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, and helped him.
11 But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
12 He is weary of me and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior to me.
13 The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable.
14 Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.
15 You wouldn't have let me do anything dishonorable but you would sell yourself to a man you didn't love--and bear his child, so that my family and I wouldn't starve.
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