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disgraceful

adjective

  1. bring shame upon
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Pronunciation: [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] / [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]

adj

Etymology: From disgrace + -ful.

  1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

    “Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.”

    “Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;”

  2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.

    “I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.”

    “To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.”