Meaning of DISGRACEFUL
| Pronunciation: | | dis'greysful
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- [adj] (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
- [adj] giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
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DISGRACEFUL is a 11 letter word that starts with D. |
| | Synonyms: | | black, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, immoral, inglorious, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, shocking |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
{Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n.
The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B.
Jonson.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing, heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish, lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base, off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad, scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, wrongful |
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