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unhonour

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Unhonour (noun) means a lack of honour or respect; shame.

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A lack of honour or respect; shame.

"There is honor in doing what's right, and unhonor in doing what's wrong; and I think it wrong to take the life even of a Mingo, without a useful end in view, I do; and right to hear reason at all times." — James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder (2009)

"Razak Akhun, and other Ladaki, and I abuse to Kalam Rassul, and we said: "We all men will beat you for this, which you made unhonor to our sahib before Tibetan." He begged pardon to us for this matter." — Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Servant of Sahibs (1923)

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