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DISHONOURABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonourableness mean? 

DISHONOURABLENESS (noun)
  The noun DISHONOURABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not deserving honor or respectplay

  Familiarity information: DISHONOURABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISHONOURABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not deserving honor or respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dishonorableness; dishonourableness

Hypernyms ("dishonourableness" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dishonourableness"):

ignobility; ignobleness (the quality of being ignoble)

sleaziness (morally dishonorable)

disreputability; disreputableness; unrespectability (dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation)

Derivation:

dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)


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