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dishonourable

dishonourable adjective: british standard spelling of dishonorable.

Adjective

dishonourable (comparative more dishonourable, superlative most dishonourable)

  1. British standard spelling of dishonorable.
    • He adhered to the forms of his religion rather because he felt it would be dishonourable to change that of his fathers, than from any rational or sincere belief of its mysterious doctrines.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

dishonourable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

dishonourable in Tamil

மதிப்புக்கேடான, இகழ்ச்சிக்குரிய, றகேடான, கீழ்த்தளமான, இழிந்த

dishonourable in Urdu

بےآبرو, بےننگ و نام

dishonourable in Telugu

dishonourable
దొంగ doṅga

dishonourable in Malayalam

shameful, disgraceful, disreputable
അപമാനകരമായ, ആക്ഷേപകരമായ, ലജ്ജാകരം, ലജ്ജാവഹം, അമാന്യ, മാനക്കേടായ

Forms of dishonourable

comparativemore dishonourable
superlativemost dishonourable

Words formed from dishonourable

Phrases with dishonourable

Questions about dishonourable

What does dishonourable mean?
Dishonourable means british standard spelling of dishonorable.
What is dishonourable in Tamil?
Dishonourable in Tamil is மதிப்புக்கேடான, இகழ்ச்சிக்குரிய, றகேடான. See Dishonourable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dishonourable?
Dishonourable is an adjective.

Words near dishonourable in the dictionary

  1. dishonoreth
  2. dishonoring
  3. dishonors
  4. dishonour
  5. dishonour'd
  6. dishonourable
  7. dishonourable discharge
  8. dishonourable discharges
  9. dishonourableness
  10. dishonourably
  11. dishonoured

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dishonourable (page history and authors); dishonourable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dishonourable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); దొంగ (Telugu) (page history and authors); dishonourable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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