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Disgrace   /dɪsgrˈeɪs/   Listen
noun
Disgrace  n.  
1.
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. "Macduff lives in disgrace."
2.
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. "To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?"
3.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
4.
An act of unkindness; a disfavor. (Obs.) "The interchange continually of favors and disgraces."
Synonyms: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation.


verb
Disgrace  v. t.  (past & past part. disgraced; pres. part. disgracing)  
1.
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."
2.
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."
3.
To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. "The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace."
Synonyms: To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase.





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"Disgrace" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune. She was especially careful to avoid her old friends and the scenes of her former successes. To be poor seemed to her such a confession of failure that it amounted to disgrace; and she detected a note of condescension in the ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... with a little Turkish politics. The whole arrangement of the Greek War is put into the hands of the Viceroy of Egypt. The Captain Pacha does not go afloat this year but is I fancy in great disgrace. The Constantinople and Egyptian fleets are to be combined under Ibrahim Pacha, who is now at Marmorico, waiting for reinforcements to go to the Morea. I fancy the divided Councils of the Greeks now gives a fine ...
— Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. - A Memoir • Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
... would be sure to have a considerable party which would naturally be joined by all the discontented persons of the Court, and all the frondeurs of Paris. They too easily believed that he would be stripped of all the advantages of his rank and order, and given up to the disgrace due to his irregular conduct; they ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... against you, for you to come out victorious. You will therefore show great blindness of judgment, unless, after allowing us to retire, you can find some counsel more prudent than this. You will surely not be caught by that idea of disgrace, which in dangers that are disgraceful, and at the same time too plain to be mistaken, proves so fatal to mankind; since in too many cases the very men that have their eyes perfectly open to what they are rushing ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... share it,' pleaded her daughter; 'I will give you back far more than I ever took from you, if only you will go away and not disgrace me ...
— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel


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