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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dishonor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering shame
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Examples
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Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform.
9/11 2009
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Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform.
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Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform.
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Boykin dishonored the country by making his religious and political comments while in uniform.
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The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these
Michael Strogoff 2003
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A better feeling, however, regarding labor and laborers, is beginning to prevail: these motions, which breathe the very spirit of slavery whence they are borrowed, are in a word dishonored, while they are gradually losing their hold on the heart, and their influence on the life.
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The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these "eagles" of the highway.
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Have you afterwards heard his name dishonored, have you found his tomb empty when you went to pray beside it?
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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Then have you heard his name dishonored, found his tomb empty when you went there to pray?
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878
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The eagles of the mountain would not have found their name dishonored by these "eagles" of the highway.
Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne 1866
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