disgraceful

Etymology

disgrace + -ful

adj

  1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
    Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time. 1668, Slingsby Bethel, The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell, page 9
    Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ; 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292
    From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed. 1883, Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, editor, The poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, & Thomas Warton.
  2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
    I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here. 1854, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible, page 76
    To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail. 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury

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