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dishonourably en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English dishonourable Middle English -ly English -ly English dishonourably From dishonourable + -ly.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of dishonorably.
   alt of dishonorably
   • "That employer," cried she, "must be Mr Monckton! Mr Monckton whom so long I have known, who so willingly has been my counsellor, so ably my instructor! in whose integrity I have confided, upon whose friendship I have relied! my succour in all emergencies, my guide in all perplexities!—Mr Monckton thus dishonourably, thus barbarously to betray me! to turn against me the very confidence I had reposed in his regard for me! and make use of my own trust to furnish the means to injure me!"— 1782, [Frances Burney], Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC:
   • The good prince King James […] bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely. 1743, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England:
   • The reason he told me was because I was very bold and asked him. I believed that he had never acted dishonourably, and I begged him to tell me the history. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
   • "With silent indignation, Fanny repeated to herself, "Never happier!—never happier than when doing what you must know was not justifiable!—never happier than when behaving so dishonourably and unfeelingly!—Oh! what a corrupted mind!" 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

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