0 a feeling of embarrassment and loss of people's respect, or a situation in which you experience this:
2 if a bank dishonours a cheque, it refuses to pay it because there is not enough money in the account of the person who has written the cheque:
3 to refuse to accept or pay a bill of exchange
4 to refuse to do something that you previously agreed to do:
The government has been accused of dishonouring its pledge to upgrade London's underground network.
And when the bond was dishonoured, there was reason for indignation and distress.
Such a reading is in tune with the popular feelings of anger, shame and dishonour brought about by the runaway cases.
Soldiers' honour lived in the real world, but pragmatism was not to be confused with dishonour.
These are not matters of honouring and respecting, dishonouring and shaming, by the standards of any honour code, however admirable.
In the course of his trial he had protested desperately against the dishonour of being manacled.
The infliction of visible signs of dishonour was feared and resented.
Here, the example means something like 'should appear to your dishonour'.
The king's dishonour undermined the bonds of affinity that held social order together.
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不光彩,不名譽,恥辱,羞辱, 使丟臉,使蒙受恥辱, 羞辱…
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不光彩,不名誉,耻辱,羞辱, 使丢脸,使蒙受耻辱, 羞辱…
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deshonra, deshonrar, no respetar…
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desonra, desonrar, faltar a…
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namusuna leke sürme, onursuzluk, haysiyetsizlik…
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déshonneur, déshonorer…
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hanba, ostuda, zostudit…
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