Disgraceful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
     Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
     unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
     {Dis*grace"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n.
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           The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disgraceful
       adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
              reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked
              rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray;
              "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: {scandalous},
               {shameful}, {shocking}]
       2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
          disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
          records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
          Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
          opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display
          of cowardice" [syn: {black}, {ignominious}, {inglorious},
          {opprobrious}, {shameful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgraceful":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base,
     beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible,
     corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded,
     degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant,
     discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil,
     execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing,
     heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper,
     inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous,
     infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish,
     lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious,
     not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base,
     off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful,
     rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad,
     scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy,
     sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit,
     unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable,
     unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy,
     unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong,
     wrongful