Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
disgraceful
adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked
rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray;
"the most shocking book of its time" [syn: scandalous,
shameful, shocking]
2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display
of cowardice" [syn: black, ignominious, inglorious,
opprobrious, shameful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgraceful":
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base,
beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible,
corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded,
degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant,
discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil,
execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing,
heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper,
inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous,
infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish,
lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious,
not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base,
off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful,
rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad,
scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy,
sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit,
unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable,
unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy,
unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong,
wrongful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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