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disgraceful

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom/[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]/
  • United Kingdom/[dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]/

Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

adjective

  1. 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 ;

    From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.

    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.

  2. 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.

Etymology

From disgrace + -ful.

Forms

comparative
more disgraceful, disgracefuller
superlative
most disgraceful, disgracefullest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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