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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISHONOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dishonor
 n.  a feeling of embarrassment and loss of people's respect
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  "Add conceit to dishonor," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  There's too much honor in her to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
3  She remembered irrelevantly Rhett's drunken remark: "She can't conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  Without salve, he could not, he though, were the sore badge of his dishonor through life.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
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
6  In both cases, dishonor for him, Javert.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
7  Allow me, then, to avoid dishonor by death; let me take refuge in martyrdom.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
8  "Blood washes out dishonor," said Morrel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
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.
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
11  But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
12  He is weary of me and is trying not to be dishonorable in his behavior to me.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 30
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.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE LEAP-FROG
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.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
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