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Definition of Dishonorableness
1. Noun. The quality of not deserving honor or respect.
Generic synonyms: Unrighteousness
Specialized synonyms: Ignobility, Ignobleness, Sleaziness, Disreputability, Disreputableness, Unrespectability
Derivative terms: Dishonorable, Dishonorable, Dishonourable
Antonyms: Honorableness
Definition of Dishonorableness
1. Noun. The property of being dishonorable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishonorableness
Literary usage of Dishonorableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The dishonorableness of the methods employed to reorganize the government of the
Laboratory. 4. The ignorance of the facts on the part of the members of the ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"... called him back to her, regardless of the dishonorableness of breaking his
contract and leaving unfinished the work for which he had already been paid. ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... at war with her doctrines or in need of giving them private interpretation
may have laid himself open to the specious charge of dishonorableness, ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"The wages of labor vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness,
the honorableness or dishonorableness of the employment. ..."
5. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth Ross (1901)
"... about the ends of life, about the worth of things, and about the honor- ableness
and dishonorableness of actions, which society'drills into its members. ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1899)
"The wages of labor vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness,
the honorableness or dishonorableness of the employment. ..."
7. Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects by Henry Ward Beecher (1860)
"All real or supposed evil—all oppression, if your employers oppress you—all
cheating, if they cheat yon—all manner of dishonorableness, if they put it upon ..."
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