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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for disgraceful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing, heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish, lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base, off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad, scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, wrongful

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