Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ignominy; shamefulness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
disgraceful .
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- noun unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor
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Examples
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It’s a disgrace to higher education, and its disgracefulness is only surpassed by that of the college presidents and trustees who don’t have the moral integrity to zero it out of existence.
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I don't think you understand, but George W. Bush led a hate-based political movement starting in 1999 and intensifying dramatically after 9/11, culminating in its disgracefulness with his 2004 campaign's decision to scapegoat gay people as an enemy of our values.
"Na Na Na Na/Na Na Na Na/Hey Hey Hey/Good-bye." Ann Althouse 2009
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Palin, in all her sashaying disgracefulness, is not McCain's creation; but she is his responsibility.
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This is surely ugliness, utter disgracefulness, unredeemed evil.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Mr. TYLER warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mr. Tyler warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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And so as Epaminondas is said, with the honour of his virtue, to have made an office, by his exercising it, which before was contemptible, to become highly respected: so these, no more but setting their names to it, by their own disgracefulness, disgrace the most graceful poesy.
English literary criticism Various
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Mr. Tyler warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mr. TYLER warmly enlarged on the impolicy, iniquity, and disgracefulness of this wicked traffic.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Some of our living composers recall the parental opposition that met their first inclinations to a musical career, opposition based upon the disgracefulness, the heathenishness, of music as a profession.
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