Disgraceful Meaning
[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjBringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
adjGiving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Sentence Examples
She was too proud to do anything disgraceful.
Your behavior was disgraceful.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The mayor's dishonest behavior during the fundraiser was truly ____ and shocked everyone.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She was too proud to do anything ____.
Word Origin & History
From disgrace + -ful.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The mayor's dishonest behavior during the fundraiser was truly ____ and shocked everyone.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She was too proud to do anything ____.