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Disgrace   /dɪsgrˈeɪs/   Listen
noun
Disgrace  n.  
1.
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. "Macduff lives in disgrace."
2.
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. "To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?"
3.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
4.
An act of unkindness; a disfavor. (Obs.) "The interchange continually of favors and disgraces."
Synonyms: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation.


verb
Disgrace  v. t.  (past & past part. disgraced; pres. part. disgracing)  
1.
To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor. "Flatterers of the disgraced minister." "Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed."
2.
To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. "Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace." "His ignorance disgraced him."
3.
To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. "The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace."
Synonyms: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase.





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"Disgrace" Quotes from Famous Books



... no longer sing in public Hymns to Christ Jesus on the field of blood; That we no more are burnt in public places, Or that the tsar no longer with his sceptre Rakes in the ashes? Is there any safety In our poor life? Each day disgrace awaits us; The dungeon or Siberia, cowl or fetters, And then in some deaf nook a starving death, Or else the halter. Where are the most renowned Of all our houses, where the Sitsky princes, Where are the Shestunovs, where the Romanovs, Hope of our fatherland? ...
— Boris Godunov - A Drama in Verse • Alexander Pushkin
... up to her fullest height. "I work for my living, but I want you to understand that I am proud of the fact, instead of deeming it a disgrace, as you seem to ...
— Mischievous Maid Faynie • Laura Jean Libbey
... method of travel in Singapore, though one may hire a pony wagon (ghari), or even an automobile at very reasonable rates. As to the electric cars, or "trams," the less said the better; they would disgrace a city of one-tenth the ...
— Wanderings in the Orient • Albert M. Reese
... eyes say: 'Yes, yes, if we were to meet we might come to an understanding?' We're ashamed that it should be so, but it is the law that is over us. And that night at my dinner-party, while talking to wise mammas and their more or less guileless daughters, I thought of the disgrace if it were found out that I had picked up a girl in the street and put her in charge of ...
— The Untilled Field • George Moore
... court. Oh no! that is nothing. A philosopher king is above all such considerations. Only, on this occasion, I have reason to thank heaven that my brother-in-law is a dissipated man, as his dissipation has saved me from disgrace, and his vices have sheltered ...
— The Queen's Necklace • Alexandre Dumas pere


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