dishonorable act
dishonourable deed

The battle was lost in an ambush attack, a dishonorable act by the rules of knighthood.

Plagiarism is the dishonorable act of passing someone else's words off as your own, whether or not the material is published.

To protect family honor and dignity, families may resort in killing the woman who is involved in the dishonorable act.

In what is portrayed as a dishonorable act, he shoots Kyūzō from the hut, killing him.

Dishonorable acts are denounced through lyrics that send shame to the perpetrators and their kin.

Taking the life of another intelligent entity, Lioren firmly believed, was the most dishonorable act imaginable.

She stunned him, then felt her antennae writhe in shame at her dishonorable act.

The Air Force honor code recognizes that tolerating code violations is a dishonorable act.

It was the fear that Toledano had been right, that Klingons were involved in these dishonorable acts.

The current version includes prohibitions against dishonorable acts such as cheating, lying, vandalism, plagiarism, and theft.

"I will forgive the dishonorable act, but I cannot forget it, and I intend to put a stop to it.

Jewish reaction on Friedländer's initiative was overwhelmingly hostile, and it was called "a dishonorable act" and "desertion".

They believed, however, that rebelling against the United States, which many of their ancestors had fought for in 1776 and 1812, was the unmanly and dishonorable act.

This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act.

Two failures... The Klingon leadership might tolerate dishonorable acts to further the empire's power, but they would not tolerate failure- at least not for long.

What you require is a pariah-a man who will accept full responsibility for the dishonorable acts against the Klingon Empire, and who will face the consequences."

The other players rejected requests to play for Japan and its legendary manager, Sadaharu Oh, a seemingly dishonorable act in a country where honor is highly valued.

"This tax bill is one of the most dangerous and destructive and dishonorable acts of government that I've ever seen," said Senator Mark Dayton, Democrat of Minnesota.

And yet; it occurs to me that I may not accept such a decision from you, for it would seem that you were coerced from your sworn word, which is a dishonorable act.

"They were like partners in an unlawful and dishonorable act which they were compelled to perform and from which they could not retreat," Singer's narrator says of Grein and Anna.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are dispatched to negotiate with the planet's rulers, but as events unfold and Anakin is framed for a dishonorable act, diplomacy gives way to war!

It was supposed to be disdained as a dishonorable act, a sign of barbarity and weakness in the person who hired the assassin: the type of "irresponsible" behavior that made the Romulans despise the Klingons.

Semantics Issue Raised Changing the emphasis from the person to the dishonorable act, the commission said, would address the committee's "disturbing" finding that cadets were reluctant "to enforce the non-toleration clause against close friends, roommates and teammates."

And unable to bear the disgrace of this dishonorable act (albeit in defending the honor of the royal princess), the Rajguru resigned himself to the andha kuan (dark palace dungeon) for the rest of his life.

Mr. Shimomura's photograph on an inside page showed an intense, refined Asian figure with flowing shoulder-length black hair, perfectly matching the article's theme: that he was a genius with a spiritual bent, determined to avenge a dishonorable act.

In the ethos of the SS, it was refusal to commit crimes ordered by a leader that constituted a dishonourable deed.

He is cruel and ruthless, not caring for anyone but himself or Helen and not hesitating to perform dishonourable deeds as it suits him.