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    1. A disgrace to his uniform


    2. The rest of the team fell apart without their great talismanic leader and the country went into a deep state of mourning for a whole week after the disgrace of the final


    3. The carpets were a disgrace


    4. She didn’t want company, but the memories were too nice to disgrace without a comment


    5. his disgrace to reach the school board


    6. disgrace to my mother and I, and so I’ve vowed to restore


    7. chuse rather to employ their capitals in a country where trade is in disgrace, than in one where


    8. Disagreeableness and disgrace affect the profits of stock in the same manner as the wages of


    9. That reason finally proves the fall into disgrace of the


    10. She’d have to disgrace herself in front of everyone, but she had the power to prove this murder wasn’t in Evander’s nature

    11. Tonight, he saw a chance to disgrace me, so he pounced


    12. He wouldn’t dream of missing out on my disgrace


    13. “I think it’s a disgrace that the Captain has stained the honour of our Battalion by shooting wounded enemy prisoners and I shall report it when a more senior Officer arrives


    14. No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the happiness or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste of their dominions, the glory or disgrace of their


    15. He dares not do anything which would disgrace or discredit him in it; and he is obliged to a very strict observation of that species of morals, whether liberal or austere, which the general consent of this society prescribes to persons of his rank and fortune


    16. “I know their a noisy set of coves but Joshua likes them coming in if it was left up to me I wouldn’t have them in the place I think it’s a disgrace the amount of money they are making


    17. The honour of a state is surely very poorly provided for, when, in order to cover the disgrace of a real bankruptcy, it has recourse to a juggling trick of this kind, so easily seen through, and at the same time so extremely pernicious


    18. Case in point: Patrick Leahy is a disgrace to the United States Senate


    19. “I have heard what your fellow countrymen are going to do to you and I think it is a disgrace as well as a sin against god


    20. Bill Clinton is a disgrace to America, and perhaps the second worst American President (a tie with Jimmy Carter?)

    21. It’s a disgrace


    22. And the disgrace for himself


    23. Now the loss of his son, the disgrace of his son being a traitor probably encouraged by the traitor Methyr, who may have held something over the boy


    24. If that is not sufficient proof, I respectfully refer you to the “Sobukwe” clause enacted during the 1970s, which was a disgrace and legally designed only to keep Mr


    25. Had injudicious censorship allowed news of the plight of our forces to reach Madrid, Spain would have hurled its strength towards the city's defences, to save a national disgrace by assault at frightful sacrifice


    26. They got nowhere though and never again were a factor in the war or in Angola after being chased back to Zaire in disgrace


    27. And on CrapTV News Channel, surely the disgrace of Canadian journalism; coming in from the cold, over the airwaves and out of the screen, causing him to hit the ‘mute’ button:


    28. No hostages were ever released, and the ensuing scandal, Iran-Contra, caused Reagan to leave office in disgrace and even more unpopular than Carter had been


    29. Richard Nixon, far from the claim of supporters that he “suffered,” lived an extremely well off and enviable life since being forced out of office in disgrace, even getting paid $7 million for the David Frost interviews


    30. She'd left the Castle with feelings of embarrassment and disgrace

    31. Instead of indignantly falling so low as to disgrace himself in the middle of an ongoing battle, he simply waved his adjutant to come closer


    32. this world is a disgrace


    33. Becoming an “Old Maid” was considered a disgrace


    34. Secretary General Annan retired in disgrace, as his own son was involved in the scandal


    35. Was there a problem, some incurable sickness or disgrace?


    36. Everybody will laugh at you about this, and that is a disgrace to the family


    37. It would be a trying ordeal, but Carl was anxious to wipe out his disgrace and prove that he was not a coward after all


    38. 7 As for the illusions of things are magical, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace


    39. 24 It is the rudeness of a man to listen at the door, but a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace


    40. have the idem, “The table of the Lord is a disgrace

    41. a disgrace to the Christian church,


    42. 16 And Nimrod fled and returned in shame and disgrace to his land, and he was under subjection to Chedorlaomer for a long time, and Chedorlaomer returned to his land and sent princes of his host to the kings that dwelt around him, to Arioch King of Elasar, and to Tidal King of Goyim, and made a covenant with them, and they were all obedient to his commands


    43. Only disgrace, the wooden bamboos potted the length of the theater to match the Dolby digital sound of big cinemax


    44. 27 And the king commanded that all the wise men and magicians should go out from before him, and they all went out from before the king with shame and disgrace


    45. The upholstery shop was a disgrace


    46. 59 And at the end of three years, the king died, in shame, disgrace, and disgust, and his servants carried him and buried him in the sepulcher of the kings of Egypt in Zoan Mizraim


    47. are mostly a disgrace that, in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism, fail to give students an honest account of American history, say academic historians and education advocates


    48. 16 And Nimrod fled and returned in shame and disgrace to his land and he was under subjection to Chedorlaomer for a long time and Chedorlaomer returned to his land and sent princes of his host to the kings that dwelt around him to Arioch King of Elasar and to Tidal King of Goyim and made a covenant with them and they were all obedient to his commands


    49. 27 And the king commanded that all the wise men and magicians should go out from before him and they all went out from before the king with shame and disgrace


    50. 59 And at the end of three years the king died in shame disgrace and disgust and his servants carried him and buried him in the sepulcher of the kings of Egypt in Zoan Mizraim











































    1. Dalton told me the story one night, about how her sister Lizzy had disgraced the family name and had been sent off with the culprit, whom she’d, indulged


    2. To see or use a handkerchief in your dream indicates that you will be disgraced or embarrassed in some way


    3. No accusation could have affected more deeply the reputation and fortune of the disgraced party ; and if such an accusation could have been supported, we may be assured that it would have been brought


    4. It is perhaps worth noting, and keeping in the forefront of our memories that the left has currently adopted the same stance as this disgraced senator, with oh so much more vigor


    5. What in the world was this mentally-challenged Secretary of Health and Human Services and her minions in the Clinton Administration thinking of when they disgraced the entire decade of the nineties by coming up with categories such as the male way of knowing (bad), and the female way of knowing (good)? The former was 144


    6. Some disgraced the uniform


    7. She gave Faith to understand that she had disgraced herself and her father beyond redemption and that she, Mary Vance, was done with her


    8. It took courage for our disgraced elders to return to us once we knew what they had done as they could easily have run for safety and never felt the good Gathandrian earth beneath their feet again


    9. of station who, by his lack of responsible action, has disgraced Pharaoh, his family, his


    10. Well, they have disgraced themselves almost as badly as he, when they

    11. Forgotten… abandoned… disgraced


    12. Nobody wanted Hitler’s disgraced Volkswagen, so the factory remained in the city which was now renamed in honour of the adjacent castle, the Wolfsburg


    13. "You have disgraced me


    14. Even though her mother was upset that Jane disgraced the family, she still loved Jane and missed her dearly


    15. that object committed a crime or disgraced himself in any way, but would


    16. The Count was disgraced by her unfaithfulness and refused to honor her with a Countess’ burial


    17. He'd been disgraced and defeated


    18. I have disgraced him and brought shame upon our family, though not nearly as much as I have wrought upon myself


    19. It was a short and sombre debriefing, it was not the death of the disgraced priest that affected them, it was the hellfire demonstration, this chemical mix that Coatl had now introduced into their lives


    20. � Her name is now disgraced in the time we just came from; she lost most of her personal possessions and she has been separated from her new husband and adopted daughter, who are still back in the year 1941

    21. of the disgraced Adonis,


    22. Eisenhower might well have gone down as a defeated and disgraced supreme commander


    23. He was, therefore, stripped of his championship and publicly disgraced on the home viewer when it was announced that he had cheated


    24. waiting for the collapse of faint foundations empire soulnessness disgraced


    25. The oracle was disgraced, and the Dalai Lama’s


    26. It was certainly the first time during his military career that Mohammad Amin’s voice had risen above that of his commander! He shouted in a thunderous tone, ‘If the unbelievers, the enemy, invaded our country and killed and disgraced us, what would you do then? You have another country… each one of you will pack your bags and go back to your own country


    27. He has disgraced me and my family, I


    28. He, a prince of the Church, was rent and distorted by feelings that would have disgraced a curate


    29. Here she was suddenly no longer a disgraced and boycotted and wicked girl, but that strangely encouraging object, that odd restorer of faith in oneself, a Little Sugar Lamb


    30. Yes, evidently Klara knew, she thought, dragging her dusty feet across the kitchen into the passage, and _allmächtiger Gott_ was what one said in Germany when one's disgraced mistress came back, instead of _guten Tag_

    31. And sooner than go back disgraced to Kunitz and fling herself at paternal feet which would in all probability immediately spurn her, Priscilla felt she would die


    32. He had seen what happened to other men's daughters who had disgraced themselves


    33. She kept telling me she wanted to die, that she was disgraced


    34. 22 Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar


    35. Disgraced, he returned to Paris, where the infuriated citizenry demanded his


    36. He was such an egotistical intellectual ass he could not bear to lose face socially and be disgraced by being thrown out of the city he wanted to help


    37. If they did not, they were brought back, fined, imprisoned, and disgraced


    38. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced


    39. It will be but a step for the theologian from the doctrine that he who dies rich dies disgraced, to that which brings upon the man punishment or deprivation hereafter


    40. inhuman, the most vile, and intolerant that ever disgraced the ledger of events

    41. So he went about finding a way out of his dilemma before he was socially disgraced


    42. They can afford multiple and if one is disgraced with pregnancy, he has others he can parade around,” Kyrin explained


    43. So that age is a historical reality, the blackest, the most inhuman, the most vile, and intolerant that ever disgraced the ledger of events


    44. Had We destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, we would have followed Your revelations before we were humiliated and disgraced


    45. "Sir," answered Don Quixote, "that cannot be on any account omitted, and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for it is usual and customary in knight-errantry that the knight-errant, who on engaging in any great feat of arms has his lady before him, should turn his eyes towards her softly and lovingly, as though with them entreating her to favour and protect him in the hazardous venture he is about to undertake, and even though no one hear him, he is bound to say certain words between his teeth, commending himself to her with all his heart, and of this we have innumerable instances in the histories


    46. "Have I not told thee," answered Don Quixote, "that I mean to imitate Amadis here, playing the victim of despair, the madman, the maniac, so as at the same time to imitate the valiant Don Roland, when at the fountain he had evidence of the fair Angelica having disgraced herself with Medoro and through grief thereat went mad, and plucked up trees, troubled the waters of the clear springs, slew destroyed flocks, burned down huts, levelled houses, dragged mares after him, and perpetrated a hundred thousand other outrages worthy of everlasting renown and record? And though I have no intention of imitating Roland, or Orlando, or Rotolando (for he went by all these names), step by step in all the mad things he did, said, and thought, I will make a rough copy to the best of my power of all that seems to me most essential; but perhaps I shall content myself with the simple imitation of Amadis, who without giving way to any mischievous madness but merely to tears and sorrow, gained as much fame as the most famous


    47. Jo disgraced herself by nearly fainting away, and had to be doctored by Laurie in the china closet


    48. I felt myself disgraced and deserted forever, but didn't blame him a particle, and was scrambling my papers together, meaning to rush upstairs and shake myself hard, when in he came, as brisk and beaming as if I'd covered myself in glory


    49. "Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" said Teresa when she heard the letter; "that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are gentlewomen the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as much airs as if they were queens, no less, and seem to think they are disgraced if they look at a farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she's a duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me as if I was her equal--and equal may I see her with the tallest church-tower in La Mancha! And as for the acorns, senor, I'll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a show and a wonder


    50. The Semi-drunk, though beaten, was not disgraced: and he was so affected by the good feeling manifested by the company that he presently produced a sixpence and insisted on paying for another half-pint all round


































    1. embraced the disgraces of the corporation


    2. And all Samaritans are filth, scourges of the earth, disgraces to the House of Judea—more closely related to Gentiles than Jews!… And Yeshua surprisingly sneers at the men


    3. She even disgraces the name of Linton; and I've sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure, and still creep shamefully cringing back!


    4. so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and


    5. Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive


    6. But it is a fact that certain companies which have had large losses in the past have been able to report future earnings without charging the normal taxes against them, in that way making a very fine profits appearance indeed—based paradoxically enough on their past disgraces


    7. Disgraces to their races


    8. archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort Karl does nothing, the Archduke Ferdinand disgraces himself


    9. She even disgraces the name of Linton; and I’ve sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure, and still creep shamefully cringing back! But tell him, also, to set his fraternal and magisterial heart at ease: that I keep strictly within the limits of the law


    10. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces

    11. This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys


    12. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke Ferdinand disgraces himself


    1. In Corinth Christian women were disgracing their husbands by refusing to appear


    2. I remember disgracing myself with some evangelical brothers some years ago in Aberdeen when a crusade was promoted in the city entitled “Christ the Answer”


    3. You're disgracing your pa and I feel for him


    4. 2 And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law and take knowledge for our guide


    5. That he is disgracing the constitution


    6. The only ones not in a party mood were Clarisse and her cabinmates, whose poisonous looks told me they’d never forgive me for disgracing their dad


    7. watched through the binoculars, disgracing his uniform


    8. ‘’Indeed! Taking down and disgracing some of those hypocritical churchmen was something I particularly appreciated, Delicia


    9. Fatwas have been issued by progressive clerics against terrorism (as has been mentioned in the previous chapter), favouring girls’ education[129] and against cow slaughter to maintain communal harmony, but unfortunately, these don’t get as much media publicity as much as regressive ones like those declaring women working alongside men as being un-Islamic or even to kill critics of Islam like Salman Rushdie (and by the way, Rushdie has used very offensive language against Ram and Sita in Satanic Verses, but the saffron brigade has maintained silence over the same, since the Rushdie episode was disgracing Muslims) and Taslima Nasreen, and these fatwas instructing to kill have given a wrong impression to many as regards the very meaning of the word ‘fatwa’ (the idea of there being a fatwa on an individual, implying some sort of religiously ordained death-warrant, is a misnomer)! In fact, instead of endlessly criticizing regressive fatwas and drawing attention of Muslims towards them, the media should report progressive fatwas more, though our liberal intelligentsia, particularly Muslims, should not close its eyes to regressive fatwas, and ought to counter them strongly


    10. He looked at his watch, found he could give her five minutes more, and pinching his lower lip arrived at the conclusion that the supper-party, whose litter was disgracing the house downstairs, had been the last flare-up of improvidence

    11. “I would not think of disgracing the family with a divorce


    12. You are also disgracing the memory of your grandmother


    13. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdanich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!’ The staff captain’s voice began to tremble


    14. These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel


    15. Who knows, perhaps I had a great desire to let her see that her visit made me feel ashamed to meet my schoolfellows, to let her have at least a glimpse that she might understand, as though to say, " See, you me disgracing me, and you don't understand what you are doing


    16. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” The staff captain’s voice began to tremble


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    Synonyms for "disgrace"

    disgrace ignominy shame discredit degrade demean put down take down attaint dishonor dishonour degradation obloquy opprobrium scandal slur blot baseness humiliation contempt disapprobation reproach foul defile debase depress defame smirch

    "disgrace" definitions

    a state of dishonor


    bring shame or dishonor upon


    reduce in worth or character, usually verbally


    damage the reputation of