Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disgraceful"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

disgraceful
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: {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}, {ignominious}, {inglorious},
{opprobrious}, {shameful}]


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