Word: dishonored
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...Never have I bowed to gain success; but I would wind myself through all the drains in the world, endure every humiliation and dishonor, in order to paint. That I must do. All conceptions of form living with me, must be released down to the last drop; then it will be a pleasure for me to rid myself of this cursed torture...
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. A young girl's dishonor sets off a sunny Sicilian nightmare in Director Pietro Germi's savage tragicomedy, which is less warm but no less wicked than his memorable Divorce-Italian Style...
...there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
...consciousness telling makes them often difficult to follow. Of the four children in the aristocratic Compson family, the boy Benjy is an idiot, the girl Caddy gets pregnant, marries the wrong man, and goes away, the boy Quentin commits suicide in an inflexible rejection of his sister's dishonor, and the boy Jason grows into a man constantly lashing himself with hate, frustration and repressed violence...
Adlai Stevenson agreed with that and invited Maine's Colby College students to get jailed, if necessary, since "a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement." At Marquette, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on the other hand, warned "the concerned generation" not to let zeal carry them as far as jail. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while approving all these domestic good works, told Smith girls that foreign policy is "as close and important as your friends and family, as everything you cherish...