disgrace
noun
the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame.
was disgracing
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past progressiveof disgrace.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I was mortally embarrassed and for an awful moment felt sure I was disgracing the memory of all those people who were killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2016
After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich.
From Time Magazine Archive
They couldn’t live in the neighborhood after the way Johnny was disgracing them.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
But he was aware of it also, and felt that he was disgracing himself.
From An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope
For a quiet, orderly, well behaved and most dignified street, Tenth Street, at seven o'clock one April night was disgracing itself in a way that must have shocked its inhabitants.
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith
