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unhonoured /ʌnˈɒnəd /adjectiveNot given public praise or respect: his first-rate performances were largely unhonoured...- So, the door goes on revolving as one nominated PM goes out and another comes in, only waiting for his turn to be shown the door, ‘unwept, unhonoured and unsung.’
- Let us never cease to acknowledge the county's debt to those men - and women - in our schools and clubs who work unknown and unhonoured in the cause of our youth.
- Cornwallis's job was to prevent the Grande Armée mounting a cross-channel invasion and, in doing so, he ‘achieved a goal as important as Trafalgar’, though unhonoured.
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