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- adjective Without
honour ;dishonourable ordishonoured .
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Examples
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It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honourless crime, Maranger said.
'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty 2012
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Senseless confrontation (DP style) or honourless abdication (NNP style).
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If he could not "make good" here, what excuse could there be for him; what was there left for him save the profitless and honourless life of the dilettante and idler?
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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There is nothing more honourless than the deliberate murder of, in the case of Mohammad Shafia, three of his daughters and his wife, in the case of Tooba Yahya, three of her daughters and a stepmother to all her children, in the case of Hamed Shafia, three of his sisters and a mother.
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"It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous, more honourless crime," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Rosa Prince 2012
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