(a.) Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
(a.) Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.
Example Sentences:
(1) To test this hypothesis, twin concordance for dishonorable discharge from the US military was examined among 15,924 twin pairs in the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Twin Registry, all of whom served in the US military.
(2) I won’t play politics with national security or dishonor the memory of those who we lost.” The former secretary of state referenced the repeated investigations of her husband’s White House in the 1990s by noting “I won’t pretend that this is anything other than what it is: the same old partisan games we’ve seen so many times before.” Yet the night wasn’t just about Clinton’s email scandals.
(3) But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete.
(4) David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times, wrote last week of the Republican leadership: “There comes a time when neutrality and laying low become dishonorable.
(5) Dishonored 2 (PS4, Xbox One & PC) is shaping up to be one of the highlights of 2016, its spellcheck-defying American-English name the only dubious thing about it.
(6) "I can see a misconduct discharge, but not a dishonorable," Coombs says.
(7) Here's a summary of where things stand: • Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison minus time served and is to be dishonorably discharged from the military.
(8) And where we reject others simply because of the adults they choose to love, we aren't only dishonoring our fellow citizens, we are betraying the most crucial of all conservative values – individual liberty.
(9) At least one branch of the US government has declared its treatment of the Great Sioux Reservation a blight on America’s past, when, in 1975, a federal court concluded that “a more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealings will never, in all probability, be found in our history”.
(10) PFC Bradley E. Manning, this court sentences you to be reduced to the grade of Private E1, to forfeit all pay and allowances, to be confined for 35 years and to be dishonorably discharged from the service.
(11) But Stevens dismissed this: “The guy who is running second saying I think it’s dishonorable to win in overtime … Real men don’t kick field goals.” In 1924, HL Mencken wrote of that year’s Democratic national convention: “There is something about a national convention that makes it as fascinating as a revival or a hanging.
(12) Coombs says the dishonorable discharge was inappropriate.
(13) Concordances for dishonorable discharge were not confounded by co-diagnoses of alcoholism.
(14) Unlike most action adventures, your choices in the first Dishonored had meaningful consequences, your character’s upgrades and whether or not you used lethal force palpably changing the game’s beautifully realised world.
(15) Women's sexuality and fertility are powerful and polluting, carrying with them the danger of dishonor and needing to be controlled and directed to their 'proper' social ends by men.
(16) When career politicians are obliged to contemplate the cash available for dishonorable votes, or the cash that will be delivered to opponents in the wake of honorable ones, how can any actual idea matter?
(17) The anonymous artists explained their tribute to the NSA whistleblower in a statement , writing: “It would be a dishonor to those memorialized here not to laud those who protect the ideals they fought for, as Edward Snowden has by bringing the NSA’s fourth amendment-violating surveillance programs to light.
(18) To dismiss the magnitude of this progress -- to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed -- that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years.
(19) Concordance rates for dishonorable discharge were significantly greater for MZ vDZ twin pairs.
(20) If I see any violence, then I will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to Trayvon Martin and his family.
Ethical
Definition:
(a.) Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(2) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(3) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
(4) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(5) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(6) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
(7) Ethical, legal, and practical implications of this problem are discussed.
(8) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(9) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
(10) Chapter three consists of the methodology: sample, setting, design, data analysis methods, and ethical concerns.
(11) when a family is in conflict often creates a serious ethical dilemma for the family physician.
(12) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(13) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(14) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
(15) Respondents did not deal with the simulated ethical problems in a uniform manner and often tended to respond more to specific details of a case rather than the overall ethical dilemma posed.
(16) The establishment of an ethical watchdog group to monitor biomedical research was a major recommendation in the preliminary report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
(17) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(18) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
(19) Abbott's comments on Wednesday morning followed a pledge from Yudhoyono on Tuesday night to restore normal bilateral relations if Australia signed up to a new code of ethics on intelligence sharing.
(20) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.