disgraceful


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Synonyms for disgraceful

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Synonyms for disgraceful

meriting or causing shame or dishonor

worthy of severe disapproval

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Synonyms for disgraceful

giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

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"The first I knew that babies were disgraceful. Why, Sarah, you, with your five, how disgraceful you have been.
They went to the Frau Professor and said that something must be done; it was disgraceful, and the house was ceasing to be respectable.
I didn't know she was so large a cutter; but she's in disgraceful condition.
"I was saying that the condition of the Flibberty-Gibbet was disgraceful, and that to-morrow, when you've told the skipper and not hurt his feelings, I am going to take my men out and give her an overhauling.
I could hear them bickering among themselves as to whose fault it was; some were weeping--for themselves, for me, and for the disgraceful way their lads had behaved.
And not until man-grown did I tell her the true inwardness of that disgraceful affair.
'Now I do say, Pa,' cried she, 'that this is disgraceful!'
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful? How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity?
PHIL NEVILLE claims of his family's club Bury of his family's club Bury is "absolutely disgraceful".
He pointed to the arrest of the #RevolutionNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, by the Department of State Services, describing it as undemocratic and disgraceful.
A SCOTS MSP has been branded "disgraceful" after praising the Government for the reduction in suicide rates on the day new figures showed a 50 per cent increase in suicides among young people.
Fellow cricketer, Kamran Akmal, also came out in support of his leader saying, 'Condemnable, very disrespectful and disgraceful. This man should be punished if there is any verbal abuse law in England.'
WASHINGTON, March 5 (KUNA) -- The White House blasted late Monday the Democrats' investigation on alleged Russia meddling in US presidential elections, calling it a "disgraceful and abusive investigation into tired, false allegations." White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler "opened up a disgraceful and abusive investigation into tired, false allegations already investigated by the Special Counsel and committees in both Chambers of Congress." She added that "Chairman Nadler and his fellow Democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of 'Russia collusion' is crumbling.
PM Imran Khan took notice of the Dr Samad and asked the NAB Chief Dr Javed Iqbal to take action against those people who are in 'this disgraceful act' of arresting a well known and accomplished archeologist of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.