Meanings of dishonourable act in English

You cannot do a dishonourable act without my being inculpated in the disgrace.

You have been detected in a most dishonourable act, and you have added to your fault by telling a lie.

And looking round the room she asked herself why she had ever come into it to commit a dishonourable act!

He has to decide whether this is to be a lap of genuine honour or the dishonourable act of a lapdog.

As it happens, I was this very morning made aware of the reason which must have prompted your most dishonourable act.

He had done a dishonourable act, but his conscience was quick to reprove him, and he had listened to its admonitions.

Aren't you telling me that to put money in your own pocket you would do what people call a dishonourable act?

Lord Chiltern, upright husband and politician, is being blackmailed by the sinister Mrs Cheveley for the one dishonourable act of his life.

Was it not after all a dishonourable act to the Archbishop in whose service he was, thus to take the side of the Papists?

If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

Flossie was occasionally capable of certain dishonourable acts, which always drew upon her Honor's utmost indignation and scorn.

'I know who I am, and my mother knows that she never did a dishonourable act in her life.

The president urged Eskom executives to work together with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to root out dishonourable acts within the utility.