Disgrace

//dɪsˈɡɹeɪs//

"Disgrace" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Your wrongdoing is a disgrace to our school.

What you did brought disgrace on the whole class.

These slums are a disgrace to the city.

It will take a long time to live down your disgrace.

Your behavior brought disgrace on our family.

I would rather die than live in disgrace.

I would rather die than disgrace myself.

He would rather die than disgrace himself.

There is no disgrace in being poor.

Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace.

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I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?

Now she lives in disgrace.

His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.

Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.

"You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan.

As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.

[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]

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