Verb Many feel that the mayor has disgraced the town government by accepting personal favors from local businesspeople. He felt he had disgraced himself by failing at school. Noun The secret was protected out of a fear of political disgrace. Many feel that the mayor has brought disgrace upon the town. She was forced to leave in disgrace. His table manners are a disgrace. The health-care system is a national disgrace. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
The Silicon Valley wunderkind went from deity to disgrace in spectacular fashion, and Seyfried says changing any of it would have been, well, a crime. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022 But disgrace, debt and depression are three D’s that leave room for recovery. Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 He ultimately got convicted of crimes and had to resign and disgrace it’s today in Ohio, the news podcast discussion from cleveland.com and the plane dealer. Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022 She is abandoned by her partner and left with an unplanned pregnancy that could disgrace her family’s reputation. Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022 How America and Americans choose to honor or disgrace Mr. Floyd's memory has become a Rorschach test. Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021 The man was a cherubic young pastor whose self-worth issues and deep belief in his interpretation of Scripture led to disgrace. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021 Despite the rhetoric from his administration, the truth is Biden chose defeat and disgrace in Afghanistan. Rich Lowry, National Review, 31 Aug. 2021 Ferguson, interviewing them from behind the camera (Matt Damon narrates the film), questions them with increasing exasperation, and, one after another, the academics disgrace themselves. Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
Noun
Bragg is a disgrace, the biggest threat to law and order in Manhattan in decades. The Editors, National Review, 12 July 2022 Are the authoritarians who grace, or disgrace, our world, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Vladimir Putin, more like or unlike their twentieth-century predecessors? Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 But the manner in which Mr. Biden has executed this withdrawal is a disgrace, unworthy of the courageous American service men and women whose blood still stains the soil of Afghanistan. Mike Pence, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021 In September 2007, after only a year in office, Mr. Abe resigned in disgrace. Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022 Hochul, who at the time was the state’s lieutenant governor, was sworn in last August as New York’s first female governor, after three-term Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace amid multiple scandals. Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 29 June 2022 Nixon got his pardon and a partial image makeover after leaving the White House in disgrace. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022 The scale of the electoral task faced by Mr. Johnson should become clearer in two weeks when voters go to the polls in two districts to replace Conservative lawmakers who resigned from Parliament in disgrace.New York Times, 7 June 2022 Ultimately, the decision to foment and create falseness in a community where real users expected authenticity is an epic disgrace. Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle French, from Old Italian disgrazia, from dis- (from Latin) + grazia grace, from Latin gratia — more at grace