disgraceful

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[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] (UK)
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[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] (UK) · [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] (UK)

Definition of disgraceful

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
    “Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.”
    “Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;”
    “From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.”
    “Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”
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adj

  1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
    “Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.”
    “Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;”
    “From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.”
    “Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”
  2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
    “I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.”
    “To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.”

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Etymology

From disgrace + -ful.

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