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Definition of Disgraceful
1. Adjective. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation. "The most shocking book of its time"
Similar to: Immoral
Derivative terms: Scandal, Scandalousness, Shamefulness
2. Adjective. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame. "A shameful display of cowardice"
Similar to: Dishonorable, Dishonourable
Derivative terms: Disgracefulness, Ignominiousness, Ignominy, Opprobrium, Shamefulness
Definition of Disgraceful
1. a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.
Definition of Disgraceful
1. Adjective. bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful. ¹
2. Adjective. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disgraceful
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgraceful
Literary usage of Disgraceful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"It will be said that when that disgraceful proceeding, to which I have referred
... The persons employed to execute this disgraceful order might not be ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... Roman Army by a disgraceful Treaty THE philosophical fable which Julian composed
under the namem. c,-»,, of the CAESARS * is one of the most agreeable ..."
3. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"His disgraceful Failure.—The Yankee Campaign in the West Disconcerted.—The Lines
in North Georgia.—Repulse of the Yankees. So far in the history of the war, ..."
4. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"Effects of the Nieuport campaign — The general and the statesman—The Roman empire
and the Turk — disgraceful proceedings of the mutinous soldiers in Hungary ..."
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