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Disgrace   /dɪsgrˈeɪs/   Listen
noun
Disgrace  n.  
1.
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. "Macduff lives in disgrace."
2.
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. "To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?"
3.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
4.
An act of unkindness; a disfavor. (Obs.) "The interchange continually of favors and disgraces."
Synonyms: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation.


verb
Disgrace  v. t.  (past & past part. disgraced; pres. part. disgracing)  
1.
To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor. "Flatterers of the disgraced minister." "Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed."
2.
To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. "Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace." "His ignorance disgraced him."
3.
To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. "The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace."
Synonyms: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase.





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"Disgrace" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cruel and evil can send forth, is [1] given vent in the diabolical practice of one who, having learned the power of liberated thought to do good, per- verts it, and uses it to accomplish an evil purpose. This mental malpractice would disgrace Mind-healing, were it [5] not that God overrules it, and causes "the wrath of man" to praise Him. It deprives those who practise it of the power to heal, and destroys their own ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... blame of all this was cast upon Sharp..... And the Lord Lauderdale, to complete his disgrace with the King, got many of his letters ... and laid these before the King; So that the King looked on him as one of the worst of men.—Swift. Surely there was some secret cause for this perpetual malice ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift
... the Snuff-box, I can't understand What the ladies and gentlemen see in your face, That you are in fashion all over the land, And I am so much fallen into disgrace. ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... "Where's their pluck? And I suppose they call themselves Englishmen. I'd go up precious quick if I had a five-pound note. Disgrace, I call it, letting a Frenchman have the ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
... domestic loyalty by partaking of no Sudleigh fluid within the grounds. We carried tea, coffee, lemonade, milk, an ambitious variety of drinks, in order that even our children might be spared the public disgrace of tasting Sudleigh water; and it was a part of our excellent fooling to invite every Sudleighian to drink with us. Even the virtues, however, spare their votaries no pang; and in every family, this unbending fealty resulted in the individual members' betaking themselves to the pump or well, ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown


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