Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a disgraceful manner; with disgrace: as, the troops fled disgracefully.

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  • adverb In a disgraceful manner

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  • adverb in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

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Examples

  • Another nod to my second childhood and my desire to grow old disgracefully is Captain Scarlet.

    I'm crawling around inside my head, but the clogged pipe is out of reach 2007

  • As he kept himself strictly secluded, he knew nothing of the storm of ridicule that was sweeping his once illustrious name disgracefully through the city.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

  • NOW President Terry O'Neill said in a statement that Saltonstall "bravely stepped forward" to challenge Stupak and that the state Democratic Party treated her "disgracefully" by withholding its support after Stupak announced his retirement.

    Michigan Democrat Saltonstall drops out of race to fill Stupak's seat 2010

  • One of the problems for Obama is whatever he proposes, we're operating in a climate where feelings are so high and populism is so intense and he has to deal with a Congress that is so reactive and so kind of disgracefully, sort of unprincipled about it its populist.

    CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2009 2009

  • The truth about this case is that the United States has been and continues to be an unfit trustee for the interests of American Indians, who would not need a paternalistic trustee-guardian relationship for land ownership even if the trustee had not proven itself "disgracefully" incompetent.

    Archive 2002-09-15 Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • The truth about this case is that the United States has been and continues to be an unfit trustee for the interests of American Indians, who would not need a paternalistic trustee-guardian relationship for land ownership even if the trustee had not proven itself "disgracefully" incompetent.

    Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • The truth about this case is that the United States has been and continues to be an unfit trustee for the interests of American Indians, who would not need a paternalistic trustee-guardian relationship for land ownership even if the trustee had not proven itself "disgracefully" incompetent.

    09/15/2002 - 09/22/2002 Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • The government had failed "disgracefully" in its obligation to provide effective treatment to HIV-positive South Africans.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • William Butler Yeats assisted Harry Clarke in choosing Irish writers from which to inspire one of his finest works, the Geneva Window, only for it to be 'disgracefully' rejected

    ireland.com Breaking News 2010

  • Tipping says he has been treated "disgracefully" by the army since Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, ruled that he was not entitled to compensation for developing the incurable disease fibromyalgia.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

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