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Disgraceful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISGRACEFUL, a. Shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; procuring shame; sinking reputation. Cowardice is disgraceful to a soldier. Intemperance and profaneness are disgraceful to a man, but more disgraceful to a woman.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]
2: (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" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1597 bringing or involving disgrace <disgraceful conduct> • disgracefully adverb • disgracefulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. shameful; dishonourable; degrading. Derivatives: disgracefully adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disgraceful 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something such as behaviour or a situation is disgraceful, you disapprove of it strongly, and feel that the person or people responsible should be ashamed of it. It's disgraceful that they have detained him for so long... = shocking, scandalous ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ that [disapproval] • disgracefully He felt that his brother had behaved disgracefully. ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj/-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Shameful, ignominious, scandalous, dishonorable, discreditable, disreputable, infamous, opprobrious, ignominious, that deserves reproach, odium, or obloquy.

Moby Thesaurus

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