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- noun Plural form of
disgrace .
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Examples
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V. ii.163 (258,7) Parcel the sum of my disgraces by] _To parcel her disgraces_, might be expressed in vulgar language, _to bundle up her calamaties_. (see 1765, VII, 244, 8)
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Three skinny old women, "disgraces," I may almost call them, for certainly they could not be classified under the designation of "graces," were sitting in a row with steaming water up to their necks, undergoing the process of being boiled.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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Boehner said the vote "disgraces" the values of history's lawmakers.
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Indeed, if we may believe the almost incredible statements of one of the laws enacted for their suppression, they had been known to carry by assault even walled cities, and to exercise against the miserable inhabitants cruelty such as disgraces the very name of man. [
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Legislation such as articles 137c and 137d of the Dutch Penal Code disgraces our democratic free societies.
In Defense of 'Hurtful' Speech Geert Wilders 2011
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That an organization ostensibly dedicated to peace and human rights can mourn the death of a brutal dictator who starved an estimated one million of his own people is an offense to common decency and disgraces the UN and the diplomats who ordered the public display of mourning.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The UN Mourns the Death of Kim Jong Il Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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That an organization ostensibly dedicated to peace and human rights can mourn the death of a brutal dictator who starved an estimated one million of his own people is an offense to common decency and disgraces the UN and the diplomats who ordered the public display of mourning.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The UN Mourns the Death of Kim Jong Il Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Because what disgraces a woman in an Edith Wharton novel?
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Do all you can to avoid it when it disgraces a theater near you.
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