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verb

Disgrace v. t. (past & past part. disgraced; pres. part. disgracing)

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."

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."

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. "The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace."

Synonyms: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase.

adjective

disgraced adj. Suffering shame or dishonor.

Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed.

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Etymology of 'Disgraced'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disgraced" Quotes from Famous Books

... matter of three thousand of them. Think of three thousand courtiers per day, and all the chopping and changing of them for near forty years: some of them dying, some getting their wishes, and retiring to their provinces to enjoy their plunder; some disgraced, and going home to pine away out of the light of the sun;** new ones perpetually arriving,—pushing, squeezing, for their place, in the crowded Galerie des Glaces. A quarter of a million of noble countenances, ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... I was in, I had reflection enough to foresee that my passion might suffer greatly by the presence of this lady, who, in all probability, would revenge herself upon me, for having formerly disgraced her, by spreading reports to my prejudice. I was therefore alarmed at these symptoms of the Squire's admiration; and for some time did not know what reply to make, when he asked my opinion of her beauty; at length ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... shame, a daily humiliation, when he considered his position; he had disgraced his own Church—would any other Church then receive him? ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... read aloud by the narrator, which sets out to analyse the joyful and generous temperament of Youth. "They [the young] are easily put to Shame" (so runs the script), "for they have no resources to set aside the precepts which they have learned; and they have lofty souls, for they have never been disgraced or brought low, and they are unacquainted with Necessity; they prefer Honour to Advantage, Virtue to Expediency; for they live by Affection rather than by Reason, and Reason is concerned with ...

— The Upton Letters • Arthur Christopher Benson

... get over to the men fighting at the edge of the woods, we may be killed or captured, but we won't be disgraced!" Jack cries. ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

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