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Mr. Tom Posted 6 years ago
Vocabulary

Dishonored vs Disgraced

Hi

I recently watched Hedy Lamarr's film 'Dishonored Lady'. I thought flitted through my mind that in recent years the movie would have been titled 'Disgraced Lady'. I assume that both words are synonymous and interchangeable.

Google N-grams result says this.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=26&smoothing=3&content=dishonored+woman%2C+disgraced+woman&year_end=2019&year_start=1800&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdishonored%20woman%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdisgraced%20woman%3B%2Cc0

Could I request your take please?

Dishonored vs Disgraced

Thanks,

Tom

  

Top answer

I'm sure you have compared the dictionary meanings of these words. Here is just my quick reaction to them. Disgraced lady - She herself did something bad.

— Clive

  • I'm sure you have compared the dictionary meanings of these words.
  • Here is just my quick reaction to them.
  • Disgraced lady - She herself did something bad.
  • Dishonoured lady - Someone did something bad to her.
  • I haven't seen the movie, but I read that the title 'The Sins Of Madeleine' was originally considered, which makes me think she herself did bad things and caused herself problems.
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I'm sure you have compared the dictionary meanings of these words.

Here is just my quick reaction to them.

Disgraced lady - She herself did something bad.

Dishonoured lady - Someone did something bad to her.


I haven't seen the movie, but I read that the title 'The Sins Of Madeleine' was originally considered, which makes me think she herself did bad t

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Mr. TomI The thought flitted through my mind that in recent years that the movie would have been titled 'Disgraced Lady'.

Strange thought. Maybe even presumptuous? What if I said that I thought that Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would have been titled Assassination

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Mr. TomI assume that both those words are synonymous and interchangeable.

By the way, both is not appropriate. (Picky point.)

It means

I assume that 'dishonored' is a synonym and interchangeable, and that 'disgraced' is a synonym and interchangeable.

Neither word on its own can be a sy

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