dishonour

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dishonour (countable and uncountable, plural dishonours) (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa)

Shame or disgrace.
You have brought dishonour upon the family.
Lack of honour or integrity.
(law) Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.

shame or disgrace

Bengali: অসম্মান (bn) (ośomman), জিল্লত (jillot)
Bulgarian: срам (bg) m (sram), позор (bg) m (pozor)
Esperanto: malhonoro
Finnish: häpeä (fi)
French: déshonneur (fr) m
Old French: desonor m
German: Schande (de) f
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (unswēriþa)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀτιμία f (atimía), αἶσχος n (aîskhos)
Ido: deshonoro (io)
Italian: disonore (it) m
Latin: ignominia
Malayalam: മാനക്കേട് (ml) (mānakkēṭŭ)
Maori: kaipirau (applied to a person after their death), hōnorekore
Norwegian: skam (no) m, vanære (no) m
Old English: ǣwisċ f
Old Norse: vanheiðr m
Old Occitan: deshonor
Persian: ننگ (fa) (nang)
Plautdietsch: Oniea f, * Plautdietsch: Schaund f
Polish: hańba (pl) f, dyshonor (pl) m, niehonor m
Portuguese: desonra (pt) f
Russian: позо́р (ru) m (pozór), бесче́стие (ru) n (besčéstije), срам (ru) m (sram)
Sanskrit: विमान (sa) m (vimāna)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бешчашће n

Roman: beščašće n
Swedish: vanheder (sv) c
Ukrainian: безче́стя (uk) n (bezčéstja), ганьба́ (uk) f (hanʹbá)

lack of honour or integrity

failure of the drawee to pay and retire a negotiable instrument

dishonour (third-person singular simple present dishonours, present participle dishonouring, simple past and past participle dishonoured) (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa)

To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
You have dishonoured the family.
To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
To violate or rape.
- 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash‎^[2]:
  “My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew.”

to bring disgrace upon someone or something

^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.64, page 203.