Word Meanings - DISHONOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;

Additional info about word: DISHONOR

The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISHONOR)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Abasement
• Degradation
• depression
• humiliation
• abjection
• shame
• Betray
• Deceive
• delude
• dupe
• circumvent
• ensnare
• manifest
• indicate
• reveal
• Blacken
• Bespatter
• befoul
• bedaub
• defame
• decry
• calumniate
• asperse
• traduce
• vilify
• slander
• malign
• Blemish
• Spot
• blur
• blot
• flaw
• speck
• fault
• imperfection
• stain
• daub
• tarnish
• defacement
• discoloration
• disfigurement
• defect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISHONOR)

• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Purify
• wash
• cleanse
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

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• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BREVIARY
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BREATHE
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• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• TECTIBRANCHIA
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• CREBRICOSTATE
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• MAKE AND BREAK
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• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
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• TOOTHBRUSH
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