peu honorable

L'Italie, l'Espagne et le Portugal sont trois États membres auxquels la Cour des comptes a décerné une mention peu honorable.
Italy, Spain and Portugal are three Member States which are given a dishonourable mention by the Auditors.
Cela signifiait pour lui l'abandon de toute chose, en particulier de ce qui lui garantissait une source de revenus sûrs, même si souvent injuste et peu honorable.
For him it meant leaving everything, especially what guaranteed him a reliable source of income, even if it was often unfair and dishonourable.
Il est au demeurant fort peu honorable de compter les deniers qui appartiennent à autrui.
Actually, it is not a gentleman's manner to count money in someone else's pocket.
Selon Kouchner, le coupable de cette position peu honorable de la France n'est autre que le ministre de l'Intérieur, Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
For this hardly honourable position, Mr Kouchner blames none other than the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Chevènement.
La scène internationale continue encore d'offrir l'image paradoxale et peu honorable d'un monde disposant d'énormes richesses mais dans lequel l'écrasante majorité des habitants vit toujours dans le dénuement le plus total.
The international scene continues to offer the paradoxical and somewhat ignominious image of a world of enormous wealth in which the overwhelming majority of inhabitants still lives in total destitution.
J'ai remarqué, dans le couloir, une exposition de photographies de personnalités dont certaines sont réputées célèbres, une ou deux tristement célèbres et une au moins peu honorable.
In the corridor I noticed a display of photographs of personalities, some of whom are called famous, one or two of whom I would call infamous and one whom I would call thoroughly discreditable.
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