disgraceful
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[edit]disgraceful (comparative disgracefuller or more disgraceful, superlative disgracefullest or disgracefullest)
- Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
- 1668, Slingsby Bethel, The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell, page 9:
- Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.
- 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:
- Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;
- 1883, Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, editor, The poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, & Thomas Warton.:
- From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
- 1854, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible, page 76:
- I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.
- 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:
- To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.
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[edit]- See also Thesaurus:despicable