honorably

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Prizes, rewards and medals
(the/a pot of gold at) the end of the rainbowidiom
Academy Award
award
bemedalled
blue ribbon
booby prize
bronze
crown
gong
grab bag
Grammy
hand something out
honour
platinum disc
prize
Pulitzer Prize
Purple Heart
rainbow
stake
the golden boot
Honorable
adjective
uk /ˈɒn.ər.ə.bəl/ us /ˈɑː.nɚ.ə.bəl/
US spelling ofHonourable（Honourable的美式拼写）

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Royalty, aristocracy & titles
accede to something
accession
anointed
anti-monarchical
anti-monarchist
duke
dukedom
earl
earldom
emir
miss
mister
monarch
monarchist
morganatic
royalist
royally
Rt. Hon.
Shah
sheikh

honorable | American Dictionary

honorable
adjective
(CdnBrhonourable)us/ˈɑn·ər·ə·bəl/

honorableadjective (HONEST/FAIR)

honest and fair:
The neighbors are decent, honorable people.

honorableadjective (DESERVING REWARD)

deserving public praise or reward:
honorable deeds
An honorable discharge from the armed forces is a release from your duties with praise from those in authority.

Examples of honorable

honorable
Rather than inheriting honorable social status or ancestral property from his father, he inherited only his debts.
There are some honorable exceptions to this rule.
The unmarried daughters viewed ecclesiastic posts as an honorable refuge which enabled them to lead an elegant style of life.
The objective now was to salvage an honorable peace from the jaws of defeat.
In machinery, textiles, and woodworking, the "honorable" way to operate a piece rate system was well understood.
We will never know, for honorable schoolboys don't tell tales.
Some of these 'entrepreneurs' gained positive publicity or 'prestige' through donating to local welfare projects, and thereby were rewarded by the government with honorable titles.
To be fair- and open-minded, unbiased, truthful, honorable, and just seem to be essential characteristics of dignified beings.
These are the skilled few for whom individualism actually counts, and death is useful and honorable.
They considered this an honorable and worthwhile mandate.
The more honorable judges are, the better for my thesis.
You might surely say that 1 should have expressed more distinctly that the idea of the parabolic line originated from you, honorable sir.
He seemed to me the most finished product of an ancient and honorable race the world has yet produced, not only a great actor, but a supremely superior personage.
I nevertheless did the honorable thing.
I believe that, on average, judges are more honorable than those of us in professions that do not put such a premium on probity and justice.
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