disgraceful

CEFRB1

[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]

adjective

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adjective
Very shameful and deserving strong criticism.
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adjective
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Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.

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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 ;
I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.

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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
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.
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
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

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From disgrace + -ful.