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Example sentences for "disgraceful"

Lexicographically close words:
disgorged; disgorges; disgorging; disgrace; disgraced; disgracefully; disgraces; disgracing; disgracious; disgruntled
  1. But Leisler of New York and Winthrop of Connecticut quarreled at Lake Champlain, and that part of the plan came to a disgraceful end forthwith.

  2. In 1695, the attainder was reversed by act of parliament; but it remains the most disgraceful episode of William's government of the colonies.

  3. And then the Queen's Solicitor, taking the paper from the witness, proceeded to read the confession with all its deeply disgraceful revelations.

  4. That was a disgraceful business," said Sir John.

  5. Then, as he went from them, the abandonment of Mrs. Rickards and Mrs. Levitt to disgraceful laughter.

  6. The kingdom of heaven had thus disappeared, and men, to supply its place on the earth, had opened a disgraceful traffic.

  7. The traffic of Tezel was too much in discredit, and too disgraceful for any other than himself, or some one of his creatures, to dare to take up the gauntlet.

  8. He must take the part of the pope against audacious men, who dare to associate his venerable name with their disgraceful traffic.

  9. Anything more disgraceful than this apathy on the part of her inhabitants she could not have been guilty of.

  10. All the efforts of the better element, however, did not prevent one of the most disgraceful of all disturbances which had occurred since my arrival in Los Angeles.

  11. But, at any rate, it would be disgraceful indeed if John Smith could cause me uneasiness.

  12. Not even that ingredient of costume which I had lent poor Gracie, very nice and pretty ones--but an old grey pair of silken-hose, disgraceful even to look at!

  13. I though that you were his friend, and that you would be as indignant as I was at that disgraceful attack upon his reputation.

  14. It doesn't seem so disgraceful after all.

  15. The gown was an unequivocal success, and had Ella seen the disgraceful article which had appeared in the Spiritual Aneroid on the subject of Mr. Courtland's explorations?

  16. Can they conceal the facts of the disgraceful treaty of the generals with their own officers and men at the city of Far West?

  17. Are we, sir, to give the least countenance to claims so preposterous, disgraceful and criminal as are embodied in this address?

  18. Lloyd Garrison said: "I have seen many tumultuous meetings in my day, but on no occasion have I ever seen anything more disgraceful to our common humanity.

  19. The convention soon adjourned for the day and, as Miss Anthony went out of the hall, many of the women drew away from her and said audibly: "Did you ever see such a disgraceful performance?

  20. During this controversy the Utica Herald contained a disgraceful editorial, saying: Who does not feel sympathy for Susan Anthony?

  21. The street through the lower town along the quays is, I think, the most disgraceful thoroughfare I ever saw in any town.

  22. In saying this, I do not think that I am proclaiming anything disgraceful to England, though I am proclaiming much that is creditable to America.

  23. Owing to this cause several important streets remain to this hour disgraceful nuisances.

  24. And I cannot imagine anything more disgraceful than a man, Swiss, or of any other nationality, who would sell himself to a despot.

  25. To what extent this fear was merely deceptive or simulated or really true is something that will probably never be exactly known; but a strong instinct spoke out of this fear and out of its disgraceful and senseless persecution.

  26. It's positively disgraceful to carry food away in your pockets the way you do, Norman Ware.

  27. The Indians seized them, as they were incapable of offering the slightest resistance, and led them to one of their villages, where they kept them in a state of the most disgraceful and humiliating slavery.

  28. He declared us outlaws, and branded us with the disgraceful epithet of pirates.

  29. Martial found it quite galling enough to be called the son of a man who was guillotined; how, then, could he endure being taunted with the disgraceful ends of all his family?

  30. May your unfeeling and disgraceful regrets pursue you to your grave!

  31. The father was executed, a son is now in the galleys, a second has only escaped a public and disgraceful end by flight; while the eldest son and two young children have alone been able to resist this atmosphere of moral contagion.

  32. It is considered disgraceful in men to expose the head bare; removing the turban from the head of an individual would be deemed as insulting as pulling a nose in Europe.

  33. Why then, (I asked,) is it thought disgraceful for a man not to fight, and not disgraceful not to speak in publick?

  34. For my own part, I think it is more disgraceful never to try to speak, than to try it and fail; as it is more disgraceful not to fight, than to fight and be beaten.

  35. The one has been too much flattered and applauded; the other too much vilified and degraded, and the clamour by which both circumstances have been effected has been equally disgusting and disgraceful to the country.

  36. They said it was unseamanlike; not ship-shape; in short, it was disgraceful to the Navy.

  37. As it was he answered the helm capitally: gave us Mirsky's address on the envelope, and wrote the letter that was to have got him out of the way while I committed burglary, if that disgraceful expedient had not been rendered unnecessary.

  38. In their school of life it was taught to consider courage an honorable virtue and cowardice the most disgraceful failing.

  39. I didn't know she was so large a cutter; but she's in disgraceful condition.

  40. It's been disgraceful the way I've been hanging on here.

  41. The revolution which destroyed so much, has left scarcely any traces of the famous convent of Ursulines, where the scenes took place which cast a disgraceful celebrity on its community.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disgraceful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; abnormal; abominable; arrant; atrocious; bad; base; black; blameworthy; cheap; criminal; damnable; dark; degrading; delinquent; demeaning; deplorable; despicable; disgraceful; dishonorable; disreputable; evil; execrable; flagitious; flagrant; foul; glaring; gutter; heinous; humiliating; ignominious; illegal; improper; inappropriate; incorrect; indecorous; infamous; inglorious; iniquitous; knavish; low; mean; miserable; monstrous; naughty; nefarious; notorious; outrageous; peccant; pitiful; rank; reprehensible; reprobate; sacrilegious; sad; scandalous; shabby; shady; shameful; shameless; shocking; shoddy; sinful; sorry; terrible; unbecoming; undue; unfit; unforgivable; unlawful; unmentionable; unpardonable; unrighteous; unseemly; unspeakable; unsuitable; unworthy; vicious; vile; villainous; wicked; wrong; wrongful