was disgracing
- past progressive of disgrace.
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
Feeling that he was disgracing her by his ignorance, she would have enjoyed punishing him as she was in the habit of doing in his childhood, but this was beyond her power.
From The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher by Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston)
Lady Rotherfield's absence confirmed the general conviction that Hardyman was disgracing himself.
From My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie
