Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Partaking of disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable; bringing or deserving shame.
- Synonyms Discreditable, ignominious, scandalous, base, vile, opprobrious, infamous.
Wiktionary
- adj. bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
- adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
- adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Etymologies
- disgrace + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“CHAMBLISS: I don't know that I would use the term disgraceful, but certainly it's not the way that the American taxpayer expects the government to operate.”
“Senator Graham says the Bush administration has repeatedly hindered the investigation of a September 11 attacks in what he call a disgraceful manner.”
“The young commander took his place on the hatch, and made quite a telling speech in regard to what he termed the disgraceful proceeding which had occurred on board.”
“Speaking in the Commons, the MP for Greenwich and Woolwich questioned David Cameron over what action had been taken to investigate what he referred to as "disgraceful and illegal conduct".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“ALBANY, N.Y. - Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo's latest statewide television ad targets what it calls disgraceful and dysfunctional Albany.”
“D-Ill., for what she called a disgraceful sexist swipe.”
“... which I call disgraceful, don't you, Mrs. Studdiford?" asked”
“What's disgraceful is that YOU and all the brain washed liberals agree with BO's health plan, and you post these lists with out any facts to back it up.”
“We have engaged in disgraceful shenanigans to keep asbestos off the list of proscribed substances under the Rotterdam Convention.”
“I didn't know she was so large a cutter; but she's in disgraceful condition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disgraceful’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Harmful
quick, hurtful, ruinous, noxious, destructive, deadly, mischievous, deleterious, baneful, injurious, baleful, malicious and 24 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Four
Vocabulary for Chapter Four of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
outlaws, espoused, swaddling, frankincense, disgraceful, squinched, communion, saloon, ornaments, truant, trough, snitch
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Benladen's Words
phallocentric, disproportionate, bewave, distraught, uncoordinated, disgraceful, bewayne, beweltered, sensical, cunt, extrapolate, dysphoria and 86 more...
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disrepute
and synonyms thereof, to be sifted through as history begins judging the Bush administration.
ingloriousness, derogation, dedecoration, odium, infamy, ignominy, disgraceful
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