Word: dishonorableness
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...essentially honorable and upright man . . . has allowed himself to be so hampered by the machinations of false friends that, like Gulliver, he is rendered helpless by a network thrown about him by "little people," confessed self-seekers and greedy opportunists. Tennyson describes his situation thus: "His honor rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Shakespeare, the master diagnostician of mental and emotional deviations, provides the remedy: ". . . To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false...
...expunging of the name of Adolf Sannwald from the plaque in Memorial Church is a strikingly ill-considered action. If the plaque is to be a nationalist memorial and so honor only those who happened to fight on our side in the war, it should still not dishonor those on the other. To attempt now to remove the name from the plaque, besides being absurdly expensive and detrimental to the appearance of the plaque, would not merely cease to honor Adolf Sannwald, but would actively dishonor him. A very minor error has been committed. Why spend money merely to make...
...tension of the opening sequence unwinds steadily in a dawdling intrigue of dishonor among thieves. Granger takes the painting to Tunis, where he meets silkenly villainous Art Dealer George Sanders ("You know I detest violence"), who has commissioned him to steal it. Granger tells Sanders that the painting was accidentally destroyed and proposes making forgeries instead for the wealthy collector's trade...
...fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...