unhonour

U1N1H4O1N1O1U1R1

noun

The lack or absence of honour; dishonour.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noununhonour (uncountable)

alternative unhonor

  1. uncountableThe lack or absence of honour; dishonour.

    Razak Akhun, and other Ladaki, and I abuse to Kalam Rassul, and we said: "We all men will beat you for this, which you made unhonor to our sahib before Tibetan." He begged pardon to us for this matter.

    1923, Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Servant of Sahibs
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    Quite foreign to the thought is the opinion of Hofmann, that as a man declares his will to make a woman his wife by a word or declaration, and so takes her from the unhonour of her maiden condition, so has Christ done to the church.

    1861, John Eadie, A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul

    There is honor in doing what's right, and unhonor in doing what's wrong; and I think it wrong to take the life even of a Mingo, without a useful end in view, I do; and right to hear reason at all times.

    2009, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder

    Synonyms: immorality, indecency, unseemliness, dishonour, immorality, improbity, impropriety, indecency

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