disgraceful : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: disgraceful	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disgraceful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disgraceful adj 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" Synonym(s): disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking (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" Synonym(s): black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disgraceful \Disgrace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful* to a man. -- {Disgrace"fulfy}, adv. -- {Disgrace"fulness}, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B. Jonson.