| 单词 | dishonor |
| 释义 | dis·honor I. 1. 2. a. < a traitor to his kind, wrapped in dishonor as in a cloak > b. < a courtier in dishonor > c. < exposed to dishonor by every hack writer > 3. < the professor's conduct is a dishonor to the university > 4. Synonyms: < this author is now in disrepute and his works are no longer read > < the secretary fell into disrepute and was suspended but not discharged > dishonor implies lost honor. It may imply general loss of respect and deference formerly accorded < Belisarius, once courted, now exposed to dishonor > It may suggest the scorn of the cowardly, corrupt, or untrustworthy < the general's career will always be tarnished by the dishonor of having retreated before inferior forces > disgrace, implying utter loss of grace or favor, is a strong term and implies widely known deep disfavor incurred by something improper or immoral < the moral reputation of these Grandisons was … such a disgrace to the noble name they bore, that she rejected them with horror — George Meredith > shame is central in this list; it is usable in various situations and with suggestions ranging from those of dishonor to those of infamy < to soften the shame of this defeat in battle > < the lasting shame of a quisling or a Judas > In this series shame is unusual in implying that inner feelings of guilt are likely to be experienced by the victim, along with scornful or hateful feelings of others < shame is a reaction to other people's criticism. A man is shamed either by being openly ridiculed and rejected or by fantasying to himself that he has been made ridiculous — Ruth Benedict > The extreme feelings attached to the following words blur their exact meanings and make comments on them difficult and inexact: ignominy may imply something more intense than scorn, deeper than disgrace and may add notions of hatred and contempt < he cast the pork solemnly upon the dunghill, with every attendant circumstance of ignominy — G.G.Coulton > < the ignominy [of being horsewhipped] he had been compelled to submit to — George Meredith > obloquy connotes strong widespread hatred and contempt for an important or well-known figure found guilty of something hateful, base, or shocking < that unmerited obloquy had been brought on him by the violence of his minister — T.B.Macaulay > < all the obloquy which Weed's corruption had excited — H.S.Commager > opprobrium may carry with it the suggestion of general condemnation for the fraudulent or the brutal, or a specific instance of them < the name “educator”, for many intelligent people, has become a term of opprobrium — C.H.Grandgent > < the opprobrium conveyed by the term headhunter — V.G.Heiser > odium is quite similar; it may occasionally suggest more lasting and less specific resentment, blame, and hatred < whatever odium or loss her maneuvers incurred she [Queen Elizabeth] flung upon her counselors — J.R.Green > infamy is perhaps the strongest of this group; it suggests long-lasting and extreme ill fame with attendant hatred, loathing, and contempt < I have come, not from obscurity into the momentary notoriety of crime, but from a sort of fame to a sort of eternity of infamy — Oscar Wilde > < December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy — F.D.Roosevelt > < long remember the infamy of this kidnap-murder > II. 1. 2. 3. < his behavior dishonored his family > 4. |
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