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Definition: Disgraceful |
DisgracefulAdjective1. 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". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disgraceful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: DisgracefulSynonyms: black (adj), ignominious (adj), inglorious (adj), opprobrious (adj), scandalous (adj), shameful (adj), shocking (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. |
Improbity | Adjective: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent; knavish; disgraceful; (disreputable); wicked. |
Vice | Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disgraceful |
| English words defined with "disgraceful": Dedecorous, dirt ♦ Indign ♦ malicious gossip ♦ outrage ♦ Reputeless ♦ scandal, Shendful ♦ Vituperrious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disgraceful": Curtains ♦ Disgrace ♦ Gambling-house ♦ Mushroom ♦ Washboard, Whirlpool. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disgraceful": Shendful. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Disgraceful. Can't hold their liquor (Hogan's Heroes; writing credit: Gail Allen; Gwen Bagni) A run, sir, caused by the disgraceful conduct of your son, do you deny it (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh) But it's disgraceful to think of putting this fabulous creature on display in a cheap circus (The Valley of Gwangi; writing credit: William Bast; Julian More) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fanny Ellsler's last seranade or the soap-locks disgraceful attack upon the Germans. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Clement and Alexandria | It is absurd and disgraceful to live magnificently and luxuriously when so many are hungry. |
Jalal-Uddin Rumi | Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. |
Thomas Robert Malthus | Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the coast of Africa, where several captures have already been made of vessels engaged in that disgraceful traffic. |
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| "Disgraceful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.07% of the time. "Disgraceful" is used about 304 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.07% | 289 | 17,124 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.61% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 304 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disgraceful": disgraceful deed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "disgraceful": disgraceful-looking. | |
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| Language | Translations for "disgraceful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | turpërues (discreditable, dishonorable, dishonourable), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i fëlliqur (contaminated, dirt, dirty, filthy, grimy, lewd, lousy, mean, mourning, muddy, sludgy, squalid). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاضح (egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful), مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, ignominious, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shameless), شائن (abominate, black, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous), باعث على المعرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безчестен (mean, rascal, unprincipled, villainous), безобразен (horrible, monstrous, outrageous), позорен (flagitious, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不名譽 (disreputable), 丑 (1-3 a.m., 2nd Earthly Branch, clown, shameful, ugly), 可耻 (ignominious, reproachful). (various references) | |
Czech | skandální (outrageous, scandalous, shocking), potupný (defamatory, degrading, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, infamous), ostudný (ignominious, shameful), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Finnish | häpeällinen (ignominious, infamous, shameful). (various references) | |
French | déshonorant (dishonourable, disreputable), scandaleux, honteux (disreputable). (various references) | |
German | schmachvoll (discreditable, humiliating, ignominious), schändlich (deplorable, disgracefully, disreputable, flagitious, flagitiously, harmful, harmfully, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, infamously, nefarious, nefariously, opprobrious, rascally, scurvy, shameful, shamefully, shocking, villainously). (various references) | |
Greek | επαίσχυντος, ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, forlorn, haggard, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, sorry, wretched), αισχρόσ (bawdy, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, salacious, shameful, shocking, smutty, wicked). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משמיץ (aspersive, back biter, defamatory, defamer, libellous, slanderer, slanderous), מחפיר (flagrant, grievous, ignominius, inglorious, shameful), מ'ו " (foul, fulsome, improper, indecent, obnoxious, obscene, odious, opprobrious, shameful), מביש (degrading, flagrant, ignominius, inglorious, scandalous, shameful), מ ואץ (blasphemous, despised). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szégyenteljes (shameful), csúfos. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercela (blamable, deformed, despicable, disabled, reprehensible, shamefully bad), memalukan (embarrassing, scandalize, shameful). (various references) | |
Italian | disonorevole (discreditable, discreditably, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, shameful), disonorante, disgraziata, deprecabile (deprecable), vergognoso (ashamed, bashful, damnable, discreditable, embarrassed, opprobrious, shamefaced, shameful, shy, sinful, timid), obbrobrioso (ghastly, shameful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芳しくない (poor, unfavourable), 年"斐も無い (unbecoming, unsuitable), 年"斐もない (unbecoming, unsuitable), 不見識 (absurd, betraying one's lack of judgment, compromising, indiscreet, lacking in common sense, rashness, thoughtless, undignified), 不祥 (ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, scandalous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふしょう (disagreement, disapproval, dissent, ill-omened, inauspicious, incompetent, injury, my humble self, my unworthy self, objection, ominous, refusal, scandalous, unidentified, unknown, wound, your humble servant), ふけ"しき (absurd, betraying one's lack of judgment, compromising, indiscreet, lacking in common sense, rashness, thoughtless, undignified), か"ばしくない (poor, unfavourable), としがいもない (unbecoming, unsuitable). (various references) | |
Manx | oltooanagh (abuser, abusive, censurer, reproachable, reproacher, reproaching, slanderer, vilifier, vituperative), nearagh (dishonourable, disreputable, ignominious, self-conscious), anghooagh (discreditable, infamous). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skammelig (infamous, iniquitous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isgracefulday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vergonhoso (discreditable, disreputable, fie-fie, ignominious, ill-spoken, infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shy), infame (dastard, ignominious, infamous, scandal, scandalous, shameful, villainous). (various references) | |
Romanian | dizgraţios (disagreeable, displeasing, ungainly, ungraceful, unsightly), dezonorant (dishonorable, dishonoring, dishonourable, dishonouring, disreputable, infamous, inglorious), scandalos (gamy, infamous, mouthy, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, shocking, unworthy), ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, shy, sky). (various references) | |
Russian | позорный (discreditable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, ignominious, inglorious, scandal, shameful). (various references) | |
Scottish | n r (disgraceful : is n r leam, I account it shameful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sramotan (ignominious, infamous, inglorious, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful), sraman (outrageous, reproachful, shameful, ungodly), beščastan. (various references) | |
Spanish | deshonroso (discreditable, discreditably, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable), vergonzoso (abashing, ashamed, bashful, diffident, discreet, humiliating, ignominious, shamefaced, shameful, shameless, sheepish, shy, timide), qué vergüenza (shame on you, what a shame), ignominioso (ignominious, inglorious), escandaloso (aggravating, disorderly, egregious, flagrant, hearty, licentious, loud, monstrous, noisy, notorious, outrageous, scandalous, shocking, sinful, uncontrollable, undisciplined, uproarious). (various references) | |
Swedish | skandalös (exorbitant, outrageous, scandalous, shocking), skamlig (dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, shameful). (various references) | |
Turkish | utandırıcı (embarrassing, shameful), utanç verici (infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, sinful), utanılacak, ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стидний, ганебний (detractive, dishonest, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful, stigmatic), обурливий (crying, exasperating, flagrant, outrageous, rampageous, ridiculous, scandalous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhục nhã (dishonourable), hổ thẹn (ashamed), ô nhục (dishonourable, ignominious, infamous). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwarthus (shameful), gwaradwyddus (shameful), cywilyddus (arrant, shameful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dedecor, flagitiosissime, foedam, foede, foedum, foedus, ignominiosa, ignominiosae, ignominiose, ignominiosus, pudendus, turpe, turpem, turpis, turpissima, turpissimum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | scand. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disgraceful": disgracefully, disgracefulness, disgracefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Disgraceful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Disgracefull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disgraceful" (pronounced di'sgrā"sful) |
| 7 | -g r ā" s f u l | graceful. |
| 4 | -s f u l | blissful, forceful, houseful, stressful, successful, suspenseful, peaceful, purposeful, remorseful, resourceful, unsuccessful, useful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, raffle, regretful, resentful, reshuffle, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, untruthful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-g-i-l-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lifeguards. | |
-2 letters: lifeguard. | |
-3 letters: argufied, argufies, auricled, auricles, cagefuls, decrials, dirgeful, disgrace, failures, fluerics, gadflies, glaciers, graceful, graciles, guilders, lucifers, radicels, radicles, residual, sludgier, surfaced, surgical. | |
-4 letters: audiles, auricle, cadgers, cageful, careful, carfuls, caudles, cedulas, claries, clerids, cradles, cruised, crusade, cudgels, curdles, dareful, decrial, derails, desugar, dialers, direful, earfuls, eclairs, failure, farcies, fardels, farside. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-g-i-l-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: disgracefully. | |
+4 letters: disgracefulness. | |
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