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do the honourable thing

do the honourable thing is the alternative spelling of do the honorable thing.

Meaning of do the honorable thing

Verb

do the honorable thing (third-person singular simple present does the honorable thing, present participle doing the honorable thing, simple past did the honorable thing, past participle done the honorable thing)

  1. Synonym of do the right thing

Forms of do the honourable thing

third-person singular presentdoes the honourable thing
present participledoing the honourable thing
pastdid the honourable thing
past participledone the honourable thing

Questions about do the honourable thing

What is do the honourable thing the alternative spelling of?
Do the honourable thing is the alternative spelling of do the honorable thing.

Words near do the honourable thing in the dictionary

  1. do the handsome thing
  2. do the honor
  3. do the honorable thing
  4. do the honors
  5. do the honour
  6. do the honourable thing
  7. do the honours
  8. do the impossible
  9. do the job
  10. do the laundry
  11. do the mahi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do the honourable thing (page history and authors); do the honorable thing (page history and authors). 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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