Disgraceful

Meaning

Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful..

Definitions by Sense

1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• more disgraceful
• disgracefuller
• most disgraceful
• disgracefullest
• disgracefull

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When Should You Use Disgraceful?

Use disgraceful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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