Antonyms for disgraceful
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dis-greys-fuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈgreɪs fəl |
Definition of disgraceful
Origin :- 1590s, "graceless," opposite of graceful; see dis- + graceful. Meaning "full of disgrace" (1590s) is from disgrace + -ful. Related: Disgracefully.
- adj shameful, low
- Why else the disgraceful confinement I have been laid under?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- English history presents no period so disgraceful as the Restoration.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The rudeness of your whole behaviour this evening has been disgraceful.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- It is disgraceful to omit them; but it is no very great credit to observe them.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- He went back to his mother and subjected her to a disgraceful cross-examination.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- The truth is that some of these loves are disgraceful and others honourable.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- The beloved too, when he is found in any disgraceful situation, has the same feeling about his lover.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- And, worse and most disgraceful of all, he had not fled alone.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Was it disgraceful that she had wooed and not waited to be won?
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
Synonyms for disgraceful
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