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disgraceful en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] (UK)
• [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] (UK)

Etymology

From disgrace + -ful.

Meanings

1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
   • From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed. 1883, Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, editor, The poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, & Thomas Warton.:
   • Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time. 1668, Slingsby Bethel, The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell, page 9:
   • Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ; 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:
   • 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. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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. 1854, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible, page 76:
   • To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail. 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:

Forms

Deriveds

disgracefully · disgracefulness

Synonyms

disgusting

Translations (67)

hu szégyenletes (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · id memalukan (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · fr scandaleux (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · fr honteux (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it ignominioso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · vi xấu hổ (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · pdt schentlich (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · fr déshonorant (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · fi häpeällinen (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ja 不名誉な (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · es deshonroso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · hi अपमानजनक (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · pt infame (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cmn 羞慚 /羞惭 (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · es vergonzoso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · no vanærende (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · de skandalös (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ja 恥ずべき (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it disonorante (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · la propudiosus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cy cywilyddus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · de erbärmlich (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · pdt schaundhauft (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cmn 可恥 /可耻 (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · el ελεεινός (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · la propudianus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ru посты́дный (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · no skammelig (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ro rușinos (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · gv anghooagh (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · fr ignominieux (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · pt vergonhoso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · la ignominiosus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · no skjendig (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · la indecor (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · he מַחְפִּיר (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · vi hổ thẹn (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · sh beščastan (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · vi nhục nhã (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it disonorevole (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · la dēfōrmis (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it obbrobrioso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cy gwaradwyddus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · hu gyalázatos (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · grc αἰσχρός (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · de schändlich (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · mi whakatautauhea (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ru позо́рный (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · hu csúfos (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · da skammelig (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · vi ô nhục (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cs ostudný (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it vergognoso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · hu szégyenteljes (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · rup arushinos (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · el αισχρός (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · gd nàr (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · it deprecabile (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · hu botrányos (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · pdt schaundboa (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · es escandaloso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · ko 수치스러운 (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · es ignominioso (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · bg срамен (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · cy gwarthus (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · sh бешчастан (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous) · bg позорен (bringing or warranting disgrace — see also infamous, scandalous)