DISGRACEFUL in a Sentence
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138 example sentences for DISGRACEFUL, such as:
1. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace.
2. No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
3. I think his coming down here disgraceful.
4. Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
5. The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
2. No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
3. I think his coming down here disgraceful.
4. Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
5. The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISGRACEFUL
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disgraceful
a. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
a. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 Then I would make a fact so disgraceful known, and boldly challenge society to set it right.
2 There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.
3 Towards evening he was always drunk, and he had often been locked up after all sorts of ludicrous and disgraceful scandals, but he was a favorite both of his comrades and his superior officers.
4 To decline the flattering and dangerous appointment at Tashkend would have been, Vronsky had till then considered, disgraceful and impossible.
5 At last, after a disgraceful miss, he flung his gun and his hat on the ground.
6 They said he had deliberately dragged in Belle Watling to put the nice people of the town in a disgraceful position.
7 I vow, since Father Merriwether was in that Watling creature's house he has acted in a disgraceful way.
8 But as she examined her wardrobe she flung her ancient black velvet frock on the floor and raged, "They're disgraceful."
9 Now the one thing that is disgraceful to any of us is obvious success.
10 One of them, which was named Foxwood, was a large, neglected, old-fashioned farm, much overgrown by woodland, with all its pastures worn out and its hedges in a disgraceful condition.
11 The father buried his face in his hands, and the son stood in his disgraceful grotesqueness, biting straw: his hands, with the black partly worn away inside, looking like the hands of a monkey.
12 I told the police last time they did it that they should stop these disgraceful exhibitions.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
13 Yes, sir, I have, but the shock of this disgraceful exposure has bewildered me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
14 My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful.
15 I think his coming down here disgraceful.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 This newspaper article is a disgraceful intrusion into my private life.
2 Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
3 Shameful or disgraceful action, conduct, or character.
4 An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life.
5 This is a disgraceful state of affairs and cries out for a thorough investigation.
6 Smith faced total public disgrace after the incident.
7 No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
8 Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace.
9 You will bring disgrace on yourself by doing this.
10 The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
11 Her behaviour has brought disgrace on her family.
12 Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace.
13 Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace.
14 Republican leaders called him a disgrace to the party.