Word: dishonor
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...company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
...many black people have fought hard, given their greatest gift--their lives--for you to think, even for a moment, that not exercising the right to vote is an option," Dinkins said. "It is a dishonor to their memories. By not voting and by not being involved, we marginalize only ourselves...
...waits for takeoff, Holbrooke accepts that this mission has at best bought some more time before war breaks out. His words betray a weary resignation: "There's no dishonor in trying and failing to prevent a war." His plane lifts into the air, Serb soldiers ready missile launchers and air-defense guns that ring the airport, while machine guns rattle in the distance...
...vaccine, fix public schools, demonize tobacco--when the polls that have shown rising support for his policies have also shown falling regard for his character? However cleanly he escapes this episode, it has been stitched onto him, like Peter Pan's wayward shadow, a dark image of recklessness and dishonor that risks becoming one of his presidency's most distinguishing characteristics...
...anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. Your insult to a head of state and your odious lies dishonor not only your magazine but also your nation...