disgraceful
adjective
bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
disgracefulness
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a word derived from
disgraceful.
Example Sentences
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Not that Mr. Delrahim’s behavior is comparable in disgracefulness to these episodes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2018
The objections that have been made to the Datchery-Helena theory turn mainly on the supposed disgracefulness of Dickens deceiving his readers as he did, and working out a p. 171melodramatic idea.
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
Of course, this showed that he felt the disgracefulness of his behaviour; he was not utterly lost to shame.
From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Rudyard Kipling
What disgracefulness had penetrated through him, through the son the neighbourhood thought so much of, into her very home?
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
But she promptly leaned still farther out, and began making loud remarks to her sister, on the disgracefulness of such behaviour.
From Barbara in Brittany by Frank Adams
