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Example sentences for "dishonoured"

Lexicographically close words:
dishonoring; dishonors; dishonour; dishonourable; dishonourably; dishonoureth; dishonouring; dishonours; dishpan; dishwasher
  1. I had need of consolation,--and you have dishonoured me.

  2. In 1524, during the fair, the images were dragged out of the churches at Riesenburg in Pomerania, shamelessly dishonoured and finally burnt.

  3. Another than he would have been dishonoured by such a request.

  4. Many learned men and friends of Baluze considered him so dishonoured by it, that they broke off all relations with him, and this put the finishing touch to the confusion of this affair.

  5. With my convictions, to have remained one moment longer in my office, after receiving the answer of the right reverend Board, would have dishonoured me.

  6. And when Germany dishonoured herself and stained Humanity with blushing shame, both Russia and Japan joined together to avenge Civilization.

  7. It was the first time we had met since the affair at Arezzo, when I was cast forth a dishonoured man.

  8. I cannot say how I passed down that great hall with the eyes of all fixed on me, a dishonoured man, an outcast, and a leper.

  9. And thus I am dishonoured in the eyes of my religious brethren, who behold me treated like a child which hath no sense of its own--I will bear it no longer!

  10. Ay," said Elspat, "and right he had to lose it, since he dishonoured the father of the people even in the face of the assembled clan.

  11. He has dishonoured all maidens in the land, will come to shame.

  12. Arthur appeal to Lancelot, who says that he will be dishonoured if he leave his foe in possession of the field, but Arthur entreats him to do so for his sake, and Lancelot retires.

  13. I know that you will not be dishonoured before men should you go to the play, but do you count it nothing to be dishonoured before God?

  14. Thou hast dishonoured my grey hairs, and taken away the light of mine eyes, and loosed the strength of my sinews; 'for the thing which I greatly feared concerning thee is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath come unto me.

  15. But if any shut their eyes, and will not behold the light thereof, not for that must the sun be blamed, or scorned by others: still less shall the glory of his brightness be dishonoured through their silliness.

  16. And if he had shamed me, he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and dishonoured for ever.

  17. Ah Sir Lamorak, said Sir Tristram, well be we met, and bethink thee now of the despite that thou didst me of the sending of the horn unto king Mark's court, to the intent to have slain or dishonoured my lady the queen La Beale Isoud.

  18. Then spake Igraine and said, I am a woman, and I may not fight, but rather than I should be dishonoured there would some good man take my quarrel.

  19. So those three knights loved their sister so sore that they burnt in love, and so they dishonoured her, maugre her head.

  20. Then shall he never win worship, said queen Guenever, for, and it happeth an envious man once to win worship, he shall be dishonoured twice therefore.

  21. So we see the last great conqueror of modern times, embittering his dishonoured island-exile by miserable disputes with Sir Hudson Lowe about etiquette and champagne.

  22. Maachah was perhaps the granddaughter of Absalom, whose beautiful daughter Tamar (named after his dishonoured sister) may have been the wife of Uriel.

  23. His chief spoil was taken from the poor dishonoured Temple and the king's palace.

  24. Then I prayed for Christendom; but the Lord answered with bitter sorrow that He had been dishonoured and put to grievous shame by Christian people, though for them He had done so great wonders, and had suffered so great anguish.

  25. At length I said (if that indeed I said it, And that no Spirit made my tongue its organ,) That woman is dishonoured by that brother, 110 And he the man who sent us to destroy you.

  26. This maid so idolized, that trusted friend Dishonoured in my absence, soul and body!

  27. We deem a Courageous death more worthy of our free station Than a dishonoured life.

  28. So much of Raab Kiuprili's blood flows here, That no power, save that holy name of father, Could shield the man who so dishonoured me.

  29. Morel, lifting his two hands to his forehead, "to a dishonoured wretch!

  30. And, even if he took flight, his name would be no less dishonoured by the suspicion that would light on him.

  31. But, if she were dishonoured through her efforts to save you?

  32. But I have dishonoured God, stumbled and grieved saints, made the world blaspheme, and, for aught I know, been the cause of the damnation of many!

  33. TITUS, when wert thou wont to walk alone, Dishonoured thus, and challenged of wrongs?

  34. Tis thou and those that have dishonoured me.

  35. Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge: I would not for a million of gold The cause were known to them it most concerns; Nor would your noble mother for much more Be so dishonoured in the court of Rome.

  36. The pretext they used was the glory of Athens, which they said would be dishonoured for ever if they should now appear afraid to accept the Syracusans' offer of battle.

  37. Such was the defence of the dishonoured old man who had placed himself beyond the pale of sympathy by his own degrading marriage.

  38. I am ignorant but of one; it is, the name of the villain who has dishonoured me.

  39. At the interview which followed, the lady begged him to excuse her concealing her name, stating that it was a reserve which she owed to her family, which she in some sort dishonoured by her flight.

  40. Upon this, Xaral, maddened with rage at beholding his enemy escape him, after having with impunity dishonoured his house, turned all his fury against the unfortunate Hippolita, and plunged his sword into her heart.

  41. If all around its gates lewd men and dishonoured women stood and cracked their filthy jokes; if from its lovely choir the drunkard's song was heard?

  42. Shame while thou dost live, and a dishonoured grave, for this is the portion of those who would hinder faithful preachers from speaking the Word of the Lord to the men who are setting up GOLD FOR GOD.

  43. Dare we put Him to the test, and ask for that which is sure to bring glory to Him, feeling that if our prayers are not answered it is God's name that will be dishonoured more than ours?

  44. But now the others are as nothing; for some are totally decayed and destroyed, others conduct themselves as you know, and are dishonoured and destroyers of their old renown.

  45. Because some fool, or a rogue pretending to be a fool, strikes a man, that man is to be dishonoured for his whole life, unless he wipes out the disgrace with blood, or makes his assailant beg forgiveness on his knees!

  46. I said you had dishonoured your mother, but you love her.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.