adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
honourable mention
Right Honourable
▪
the Right Honourable Giles Williams MP
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
exception
▪
Alex Stewart is the honourable exception .
▪
I suspect that our generation, with so few and such honourable exceptions , knows less than theirs did.
▪
This is so, with honourable exceptions , because the cold winds of competition reached banking relatively recently.
▪
There is one honourable exception to the problems of Marian historiography surveyed here.
▪
With just a few honourable exceptions , congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town.
man
▪
He is widely accepted as a decent and honourable man .
▪
Hunt, an honourable man , said he thought they should race another day.
▪
He is a renowned and honourable man , but with regard to this matter he is either being naive or obtuse.
▪
A quick and total resignation - the modern way for an honourable man to put a bullet through his brain.
▪
Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man , an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable.
▪
I think that his decision was an honourable one and one which we would expect from an honourable man .
▪
She only knew her good fortune lay in that Tyler Blacklock was an honourable man .
mention
▪
Both projects were shortlisted and received an honourable mention in the 1991 awards.
▪
Rickenbacker deserves an honourable mention for the most significant non-advance in design.
▪
He also deserves an honourable mention for working with Graham Knight and Carlton Brown, and retaining a sense of humour.
thing
▪
Still, he had to do the honourable thing ....
▪
He might think it the honourable thing to do.
▪
It's not an honourable thing to go back on your treaties: that was his point.
▪
They think it is an honourable thing .
▪
The honourable thing would be to give her the house.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
my honourable friend
the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
It would not be honourable for me, as a solicitor, to reveal my client's business to anyone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A son who accepted his responsibilities and was only concerned to do good was an honourable son.
▪
Alex Stewart is the honourable exception.
▪
He is widely accepted as a decent and honourable man.
▪
He might think it the honourable thing to do.
▪
Kasparov has won, but Karpov went down with all guns blazing to an honourable defeat.
▪
The broader tradition is a typically nationalist one, seeing national liberation through war as honourable and singularly justified.