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“He is disgracing the women and daughters he wants to watch him. Count me out for now, ‘Today,’ until Billy Bush is gone as a host.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2016

And respected broadcasters are telling national TV audiences that the team is disgracing dead family members.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2015

He is always wondering aloud whether he is disgracing the memory of his parents by doing what he does for a living, and by "always" I mean not only in his poetry but in interviews.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2013

He said, 'This fellow is disgracing his uniform, but I hate to arrest him just after arriving at this station.'

From Time Magazine Archive

But Mr Sterne was not aware that he had been followed by the ruffian, as a bull-dog would follow his master, or a hound his quarry—though it is disgracing the latter simile to use it.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville