disgraceful
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom/[dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]/
- United Kingdom/[dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]/
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
adjective
- 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
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
disgraceful · Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
disguise · Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter…disguised · Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or…disgust · To cause an intense dislike for something.