Word Meanings - DISHONORARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.
Related words: (words related to DISHONORARY)
- TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - LESSENER
One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers . - REPUTATION
The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - BRINGER
One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces. - TENDON
A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally - DISHONOR
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor; - TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey. - TENDRIL
A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as - TENDER-HEARTED
Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. - TENDRON
A tendril. Holland. - DISGRACE
1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor - TEND
To make a tender of; to offer or tender. - TENDRE
Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray. - DISHONORABLE
1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more - TENDERLOIN
A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. - DISGRACER
One who disgraces. - INTENDENT
See N - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - OBTEND
1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - ENTEND
To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer. - PRETENDER
The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident - PRETENDANT
A pretender; a claimant. - PORTEND
to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - INTENDANT
One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.