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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- {Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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