How to Use dishonor in a Sentence

dishonor

1 of 2 noun
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  • He is afraid that his confession will bring dishonor on the family.
  • Such dishonor among thieves now seems less likely, at least in the short term.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Fair or not, Clinton has, in many ways, had that dishonor bestowed on her.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 2 Feb. 2020
  • There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2022
  • Divine dishonor Up on the mountaintop, the ruler of the gods, Wotan (Mark Delavan), is no great shakes as a hero, either.
    — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 7 Apr. 2018
  • He is said to have thought that the girls, ages 17 and 18, were bringing dishonor on him by breaking with Muslim customs.
    — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
  • For the most part, the article seemed to treat the Gevers-Breitman quarrel as a case of dishonor among thieves.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The bay colt, with his broad white blaze gleaming under the Kentucky sun, did himself no dishonor.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The Box was a bomb on release, getting poor reviews and the rare dishonor of an F CinemaScore.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • For a school like Stanford, there should be no shame or dishonor in downsizing football.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Eventually, one woman is seized with a fit of honor and the other with a fit of dishonor, which puts Stan’s hubristic plans at risk.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But a three-year suspension is a grave dishonor in the legal profession.
    — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The figure known to scare kids received the dishonor in a survey this month from Quality Logo Products Blog.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • But as important, a rejection will bring dishonor to the Senate.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Nope, that honor (or dishonor) goes to the toxic masculinity Sabrina, her aunts, and her friends battle in both the mortal and witch worlds.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Other black lawmakers chose to skip the address to avoid having to hear the president dishonor Americans who are black.
    — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The old Afghan taboo over women in public runs so deep that young schoolboys often get into fights if someone even mentions the name of their mother or sister, an act seen as a dishonor.
    — Najim Rahim, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Their statement brings dishonor to the court and tarnishes the reputation of the judicial system.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The best way for the U.S. to avoid dishonor and calamity is to walk back this policy shift and publicly commit to safeguarding its Kurdish partners until a durable peace agreement can be reached.
    — Tommy Meyerson, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Washington state holds the dishonor of producing the most farmed Atlantic salmon in the nation; Oregon has no such farms, while Alaska and California have banned them.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • While many worthy competitors stepped into the arena for a chance at fame, glory and dishonor, there could be only one champion.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Florida, for once, could be a clarion of clarity on the night of Nov. 3 or the next day — and other states could get the dishonor of leaving the presidential results unknown for days, weeks or even months.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • That bright line of dishonor, emanating from the Swift Boaters, extends into the foreseeable future.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Please spare a humble old man—who has dedicated his life to education—this legacy of dishonor.
    — Craig Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2022
  • According to the Tax Foundation, Arkansas has the second highest combined state and local sales taxes in the country at 9.53 percent--quite the dishonor.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The tools for fighting inflation reside at the Federal Reserve, and there’s no dishonor in Biden acknowledging that.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
  • But Saturday’s 52-10 loss to the Hurricanes will go down in history as one of the Seminoles’ worst performances ever, and there have been a growing number of candidates for that dishonor over the last handful of years.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
  • By a 13-6 decision, the council court accepted a motion offered by Johnson's attorney, Thomas McAdam, to censure his client for misconduct that brought dishonor to himself and the city.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Greed, dishonor, scandal and murder aren’t normally associated with the sport of golf.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 15 June 2022
  • Honor killings are typically carried out on a family member who is thought to have brought dishonor upon relatives.
    — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
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dishonor

2 of 2 verb
  • Not to dishonor you, sir, in any way, but this is not a prop.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Giving up on this season in the name of a fire sale doesn’t dishonor any of that.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
  • That may sound like a gauche question, dishonoring the dead.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • The movie’s Muslims, on the other hand, eat dirty, fight dirty and follow the lead of a marauding brute who dishonors his own wife.
    — Rachel Saltz, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • There is no room among us for those who dishonor themselves and violate the public trust.
    — Paul J. Weber, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Disrespecting the warbonnet is a grievous wrong and dishonors the likes of all who earned them with pride, like Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face.
    — Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But officials have said the project does not seek to dishonor the nearly 200 Alamo defenders.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The French and Americans are just slightly ahead of the British in turning Weinstein’s honor to dishonor.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 26 Oct. 2017
  • During his time in office, Trump said changing the names ignored the history of the military sites and dishonored the troops serving there.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • To gloss over that, or not recognize it, does not simply dishonor the memory of Hemings.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 8 July 2017
  • This is key, Corvasce said, because there’s a tendency for family and friends to seize control over end-of-life plans, which can dishonor the deceased.
    — Hannah Wiley, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
  • To treat that as something of lesser value than personal fame, is really to dishonor him and the players.
    — Ronald Blum, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • A being so gentle and so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Please don't dishonor their valor by not respecting that others also have the right to disagree with your opinion.
    — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 5 June 2017
  • Musk has no right to exit the agreement based on the number of spam accounts, Twitter wrote: The Counterclaims fail to justify Musk's plan to dishonor the merger agreement.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Sometimes, people step up and dishonor those values and precepts.
    — Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • To cheapen that gift with partisan actions dishonors the sacrifices of men and women who protect that freedom with their lives.
    — Jeremy Butler, Time, 1 July 2019
  • To do so would dishonor the survivors, students and faculty members who have built on that tragedy creating resilience, strength and unity.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 12 June 2019
  • To do nothing while free speech is imperiled is to ensure a tragedy that will dishonor every patriot who has sacrificed for us.
    — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Equality has been part of the American vision for a long time—often dishonored in practice, but at least held up as aspiration.
    — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 20 June 2018
  • Wells, a disabled veteran claims protestors are dishonoring the military and the flag.
    — Paul Murphy, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • To choose anything else would dishonor my ancestral legacy.
    — Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The people angry at McGehee and Siegel aren’t angry at their lack of literary knowledge or for dishonoring Golding’s legacy.
    — Philip H. Devoe, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
  • This provision was adopted to ensure that the federal debts incurred to fight the Civil War couldn’t be dishonored by a Congress that included members from the former Confederate states.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
  • My efforts left my family aghast; my mother said that meeting the murderer would dishonor my father’s memory.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Race is right up front in almost all of Leigh’s work; she’s often said that Black women are her primary audience, and their labor — disregarded at best, dishonored and exploited at worst — the fuel for her creative fire.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In Ancient Rome, suicide was permitted as an alternative to dishonor, but not for slaves and soldiers, the former because of the mercantile nature of their existence and the latter as a mark of patriotism.
    — Simon Harold Walker, Time, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There is nothing in his history or character that suggests the six-time major champion would do something to intentionally dishonor the game.
    — Gary D'amato, USA TODAY, 16 June 2018
  • To have this process dishonored, dismissed, and invalidated is highly alarming.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 May 2023

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