Definition of Disgraceful

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Definition of Disgraceful
	Disgraceful Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. Related Definitions: As, Bringing, Causing, Disgrace, Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Is, Man, Profaneness, Shame, Shameful, To, Unbecoming

Disgraceful Quotations

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
George Mason

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
George Mason

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
Juvenal

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
Terence Fisher

Disgraceful Translations

disgraceful in German is schmachvoll
disgraceful in Latin is pudendus, dedecor, turpis
disgraceful in Norwegian is skammelig

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