dishonored
/dɪsˈɒnəd/ adjective C2- Disgraced, defiled, treated with dishonor.
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“Sir,” said he, “up to this time—and it is now more than four-and-twenty years since I received the direction of this house from my father, who had himself conducted it for five-and-thirty years—never has anything bearing the signature of Morrel & Son been dishonored.”
Is it my fault that your father has dishonored himself?”
Albert de Morcerf, or I should this day have been the wife of a dishonored man.”
“Not for the countess, or for Albert,” said Monte Cristo; “a dead father or husband is better than a dishonored one,—blood washes out shame.”
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