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adjective
- 1. shockingly unacceptable: "a disgraceful waste of money"
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adjective. uk / dɪsˈɡreɪs.f ə l / us / dɪsˈɡreɪs.f ə l / Add to word list. very bad: disgraceful behaviour / conduct. a disgraceful situation. She thought that their attitude was absolutely disgraceful. [ + that ] It is disgraceful that children can get hold of drugs at school. Synonym. scandalous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
The meaning of DISGRACEFUL is bringing or involving disgrace. How to use disgraceful in a sentence.
Anything disgraceful is shameful or shocking. No matter how angry you are at your younger sister, it would be disgraceful to destroy the Lego creation she painstakingly built.
disgraceful. (dɪsgreɪsfʊl ) adjective. 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. [disapproval] It's disgraceful that they have detained him for so long.
Disgraceful definition: bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.. See examples of DISGRACEFUL used in a sentence.
Examples of disgraceful. What they did last night was so immoral, so disgraceful, so irresponsible. A lot of what was said by one candidate was just disgraceful. They are the real faces and fears behind our disgraceful national child poverty statistics -- 16.4 million poor children living in the richest nation on earth.
disgraceful - 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"
Definition of disgraceful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Synonyms for DISGRACEFUL: notorious, infamous, shady, criminal, immoral, shameful, discreditable, dishonorable; Antonyms of DISGRACEFUL: honorable, respectable, good, noble, moral, decent, ethical, honest.
to be so bad or unacceptable that you make people lose respect for the group or activity you are connected to: You're a disgrace (to the family) - what a way to behave! Fans like these are a disgrace to our country. What he did was outrageous. He's a disgrace to the medical profession.
