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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation;
- Example: "scandalous behavior"
- Example: "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray
- Example: "the most shocking book of its time"
[syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]

2. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame;
- Example: "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson
- Example: "an ignominious retreat"
- Example: "inglorious defeat"
- Example: "an opprobrious monument to human greed"
- Example: "a shameful display of cowardice"
[syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
   Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
   unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
   Dis*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B.
                                                  Jonson.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disgraceful
    adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
           reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
           shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
           shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful,
           scandalous, shameful, shocking]
    2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace
       or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a
       destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an
       ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious
       monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
       [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious,
       opprobrious, shameful]