What's the difference between dishonorable and vile?

Dishonorable


Definition:

  • (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.

Vile


Definition:

  • (superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
  • (superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
  • (2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
  • (3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
  • (4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
  • (5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
  • (6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
  • (7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
  • (8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
  • (9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
  • (10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
  • (11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
  • (12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
  • (13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
  • (14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
  • (15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
  • (16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
  • (17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
  • (18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
  • (19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
  • (20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.

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