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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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