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dishonor
noun as in state of shame
verb as in shame, degrade
Example Sentences
Because when we anchor our politics on identity, any compromise seems like dishonor.
After the liberal victory in 1936, an army officer named Francisco Franco declared himself to be the only person who could save the country from dishonor and ruin.
The stigma of sexual assault runs deep in Syrian culture as it does across the Middle East; rape is shaming and casts dishonor.
THE DISHONOR OF HONOR KILLINGS Imagine a young woman killed by her own relatives for failing to obey.
The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
We witnessed rape, dishonor and the destruction of families.
I felt my death would spare my wife, daughter and myself the dishonor the rape brought upon us.
Better her death, better mine, better the destruction of us all, than such dishonor to the purest thing heaven ever made.
Nor have you denied this; you have confessed you desired his hurt, you have boasted you desired his death and dishonor.
She did not relish the idea that he had been defeated in the primaries; in her mind defeat was inseparable from dishonor.
He even took advantage of Qocaib's absence to dishonor his wife, who bore him a son.
A being so gentle and so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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