dishonourableness

“The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.”

Cartoon: What Society Values 2004

We can remember well -- ah, we cannot forget, we have often wished we could, an act of rebellion against our parents of which we were once guilty; of obstinacy toward a master; of ingratitude toward a benefactor; of dishonourableness toward a friend, or unkindness toward a neighbour.

The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Knowles King

First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

But think of the dishonourableness of misleading other folk about one's income ....

Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895

There was no one to accuse him of dishonourableness, to remind him of the death of his cousin, no relations to meet who would reproach him for all that he had done.

The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne George Manville Fenn 1870

No man could have spoken more strongly, more solemnly than he, on the presumption, the dishonourableness, the profligacy, of such an act: but he was unaware how a man may be betrayed into it while he has neither presumption, nor treachery, nor profligacy in his thoughts.

Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839

First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1756

First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment …

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