How To Use Disgrace In A Sentence

Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
The American troops come home in disgrace and the American military is taunted and ridiculed by the American media, global media, Islamic terrorists, and the moonbats here and aborad. Sound Politics: What It Means
It was accounted an immodest thing for women to dishevel and unloose their hair publicly: The priest unlooseth the hairs of the women suspected of adultery, when she was to be tried by the bitter water, which was done for greater disgrace. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Nobody can even put an exact figure on the number of children who have been excluded, which is a disgrace in itself.
It is a national disgrace for the country that pioneered IVF. The Sun

It is unknown to men of noble mind; it does not lead to heaven; on earth it causes disgrace, O Arjuna. THE DICE MAN
'By gar,' he says, ''tis a disgrace to th' mim'ries iv thim devoted dead who died f'r their counthry, 'he says. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
One rubber-tyred option was prematurely discarded by a now-disgraced former mayor as not developed enough, even though the cost would have been half that of lrt. Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog
Napoleon, the greatest of all generals, dismissed and disgraced Admiral Bruix when he questioned an order to sail his fleet.
His conduct since then - culminating in this piece of drek - is an absolute disgrace.
Despite the disgrace and humiliation which eventually befell him, he never wavered from his beliefs.
We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
There was one truly disgraceful performance of the day which oughtn't pass without comment.
The whole of the business in that country from beginning to end was scandalous and disgraceful. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
They bring shame and disgrace on the religion. The Sun
I look forward to a time when I can serve my country without wondering if history will mark me down as a participant in something disgraceful.
You will be disgraced, fired, and potentially arrested.
He insists that, even though he wears the garlands of victory, he must leave the city of Argos in disgrace and return to the oracle of Apollo in the city of Pytho, also called Delphi.
Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors. Humorous Ghost Stories
Naturally I had a few moans via videoscreen from the Troi Borg Queen, saying I am a disgrace to the Borg race. Archive 2009-12-01
Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
US officials in particular are anxious that he is not disgraced now.
The string playing was sinewy, and tonally integrated, a lovely sound which would not disgrace a professional orchestra; particularly pleasing, bearing in mind that this one includes even first year students.
The swimmer was sent home from the Olympics in disgrace.
Yet there were many problems behind the scenes which contributed to the unnecessary friction and helped lead to the final disgraceful scenes. The Sun
D-Ill., for what she called a disgraceful sexist swipe. TheBostonChannel.com - News
The disgraced minister walked swiftly from the car to his house pursued by a whole posse of reporters.
This matter was discussed again during a meeting with Uefa after those disgraceful scenes which followed the final whistle. Times, Sunday Times
The whole of the business in that country from beginning to end was scandalous and disgraceful. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
That the greatest country on earth is also among the stingiest is a disgrace. Stop me if you think you've heard this one before
You have instead brought shame and disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
The disgraced entertainer has chronic flatulence due to his medical problems. The Sun
Chinese attitudes towards alcohol have always been fairly relaxed, and to be slightly tipsy is not a disgrace.
Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
Their egos and selfish acts are a disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses
Such an act is a disgrace to humanity.
A disgraced former building society finance director, who fleeced the company of more than £100,000 to cover up a string of thefts from a charity where he was treasurer, is facing Christmas behind bars.
After failing in a defamation case against the West Australian newspaper - which called him a ‘lying, canting humbug’ - he left Western Australia in disgrace.
No one knew what to say, but everyone was adamant that no bottle of catsup would disgrace that table, even if the supplicant was a senator commanding a vital vote. Centennial
Pat Quinn is backing away from Speaker Michael Madigan's broad plan to "fumigate" the government's ranks with job cuts, bill would have purged as many as 3,000 state employees hired or appointed by disgraced former governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The corrupt official was publicly disgraced.
Yet the disgraced former chairman of the Commons home affairs committee is back again. Times, Sunday Times
It is an utter disgrace to sell off our utilities to foreign companies for a short-term gain of capital. Times, Sunday Times
It is an irony lost on nobody that men draped in the English flag proclaiming unmatchable patriotism are the ones who disgrace this country.
It was a rush to judgment led by a vociferous social media campaign and I think it is disgraceful. Times, Sunday Times
English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
Cllr Willie Aird was of the opinion that it was ‘an absolute disgrace’.
The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine. Chapter X
[1894] Padua in Italy they have a stone called the stone of turpitude, near the senate-house, where spendthrifts, and such as disclaim non-payment of debts, do sit with their hinder parts bare, that by that note of disgrace others may be terrified from all such vain expense, or borrowing more than they can tell how to pay. Anatomy of Melancholy
When we say we're afraid to exercise those liberties, we dishonor their sacrifice and we disgrace ourselves.
It can be fully present in failure, disgrace and ignominy.
A teen who acts out in school or is disrespectful can bring disgrace upon the family.
‘You are both a disgrace to your regiments and your country due to your loutish behaviour,’ he said.
Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess.
But as for being a disgrace to all that is feminie-- you don't speak for me, you don't think for me, and the only opinion of myself that matters is MINE. It is Time to Eliminate Status of Women
He has no disgraced father to care for, the road is flat and metaled. Absolute Friends
The work failed, marriage prospects paled, her friend deserted her and she found herself faced with the prospect which she now understood only too well, of disabled health, unemployment, disgrace, and a second child to maintain unaided. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
This has the added bonus of dissolving those crusty accretions that make one's toothpaste tube a complete social disgrace.
Their father fell into disgrace and lost his business.
"Disgraceful" and "shocking" were two of the repeatable words used as fans screamed abuse at the referee.
I am referring to Manchester Road Park which is an absolute disgrace and resembles a waste ground rather than a recreation area.
To have the added stress of a possible court hearing or being forcibly taken into hospital is disgraceful. Times, Sunday Times
His vice president also had to resign in disgrace.
The head of the section disgraced himself last night by drinking too much.
It was allegedly cooked up by a powerful personality who had to face a disgraceful exit from one of the Tata companies, in connivance with a chief political figure of that time.
Giovanni, married a dissolute woman of low birth called Livia, and disgraced the name of Medici by the unprincely follies of his life. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
Harold, the tabloids are calling him a cad, a rat, a slimeball, a disgrace and a snake.
The story ended unhappily for all parties concerned: Harris was disgraced and his reputation exploded, but the forgers were also hounded out of Australia.
In the end, Gerald R.. Ford pardoned Nixon after he resigned the presidency in disgrace.
The way it was rushed through is a complete disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
The buildings are a disgrace, a shanty town slum, officially not fit for purpose. Times, Sunday Times
What really galls me is that services for elderly people are woeful - disgraceful in fact - and these are people who have paid taxes all their lives.
I shall have you drummed out of this establishment in utter disgrace!
The magazine is a disgrace to our neighborhood, minorities or not, and is insulting to our intelligence. and the design is terrible.
Desperate for answers, she turns to a disgraced doctor who practices hypnotism.
Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
As for Romney, it will be an amusing game to count how many times he will repeat the phrase "resign in disgrace" over the next week as he attempts to focus voters' attention on Gingrich's career in the House of Representatives. ABC News: Top Stories
She didn't disgrace herself and managed to keep with them for much of the race only to fade slightly at the end.
I wished to save you the disgrace -- yes, _disgrace_! Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
I hope you have not made any hasty arrangements with him for certainly you can surmise, his only intentions will be to ill use her and then cast her aside in poverty and disgrace.
Their blood fathers were disgraced or dead, and if still present were discredited. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
The last thing they want is some disgraced politician poking round their homes, violating their privacy.
At his court-martial he'd been called a disgrace to his country. CODE BREAKER
I dare say before this Time you have interpreted the Northern Storm; if the presages chill'd your Blood, what how must you be froze and stiffend at the Disgrace brought upon our Arms unless some warmer passion seaze you, and Anger and resentment Fire your Breast. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 - 31 July 1777
That she was not howled down is almost as disgraceful and yet another blot on the collective reputation of our MPs. Times, Sunday Times
I hoped I wouldn't disgrace myself by screaming too loudly if it decided to run onto my arm instead.
It is disgraceful act as a man in republican party show such a coward and hypocritic act .. Sanford, 'humbled and broken,' makes vow to state
Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
To be weak and shameful is a disgrace severe enough to be punishable by death according to my standards.
In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
Our gardens have been turned into rubbish dumps for discarded bottles, cans and crisp bags and it is disgraceful that extra police have to be employed on match days just to control the fans…
The tide was out and to my dismay I found the beach a disgrace and an indictment on our society.
After all, they're treated in rather the same disgraceful way as domestic cats.
She is on the shelf", a terrible shame and disgrace on the family. The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
In Britain, regulars and the part-time yeomanry, though placed at the disposal of local magistrates, disgraced themselves by firing on the crowds at Peterloo in 1819 and at Queen Caroline's funeral in 1821.
The world is filled with auspicious acts resulting in manifest disgrace. Tuxtla Gutierrez as Rodney Dangerfield
The more information that is uncovered by the regulators, the more disgraceful the affair becomes.
The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
The Opposition says the indefinite detention of children for the purposes of law enforcement is a national disgrace, and it vows to release all children from detention centres if it wins government.
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions. Sense and Sensibility
It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
He admitted cheating and quit the sport in disgrace. The Sun
This is a disgrace for a college that claims progressive employment and educational policies.
Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever! The Caged Lion
To my shame a reputation bent or maimed defamed the image staid, and disrepute disgraced my case, plagued with infamy and ill repute, a name ablaze by imputation as a most unsavoury reputation won or lost or never claimed. Reputation Never Claimed
As for Law himself, he died, alone and disgraced, and was buried in a pauper's grave.
For a disgraced wizard, Mitofsky is fairly open.
The verdict and trial were a disgrace to justice.
Four of the disgraced warriors from the first encounter attempt to regain their honor by attacking the party from the rear.
But the argument for localism is disgracefully mushy; we should be more rigorous about what localism means. Times, Sunday Times
I have no idea who Reverend Ted is, except that some people call Ted Whatsisname, the disgraced pervy born-aginner Reverend Ted. Operation global media domination: the rise of the Castoridaeian meme « raincoaster
the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful
Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods. The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
They ploughed away and were far from disgraced with the result.
This is a disgraceful, shameful attack on a student's freedom of speech at such a prestigious institution.
It is not a disgrace to care about what is really happening.
Disgraced journalist Max Raban, is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, and suffers from phengophobia - ... Ta tvnz business headlines auto group
Their egos and selfish acts are a disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
My only "potshot" is that I feel that the main contributors of this disgraceful escapade, should have all their assets & bank accounts etc., confiscated & sold & the money should be put into an account to help reestablish companies that were not involved but are paying the price of someone elses greed. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
Surely it can't be based on the disgraceful leaflet they issued for the election.
Isn't it disgraceful the way they're persecuting the poor guy?
Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods. The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
We see it regularly now when prominent figures fall foul of the law or when disgraced business leaders transgress the code and pay the price.
The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec, said they pulled off what they described as an elementary attack to highlight Sony's "disgraceful" security. Thestar.com - Home Page
He is only too aware that his disgrace is complete. Times, Sunday Times
And one summer, Grandmother said I disgraced myself by following Bill Brown around like a love-sick pup.
And did you tell him" -- and Paul's voice was almost hoarse as he spoke -- "did you tell him of -- of what you call her disgrace? The Day of Judgment
In fact, it is a disgraceful idea, an appalling, short-term botch that would set a horrible precedent. Football.co.uk news feed
To treat my aunt in this way is a disgrace to her memory.
The search for a red card for another player is a disgrace. The Sun
The young commander took his place on the hatch, and made quite a telling speech in regard to what he termed the disgraceful proceeding which had occurred on board. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
Smith faced total public disgrace after the incident.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. W.C. Fields
The NHS and education systems are a disgraceful shambles and the illegal asylum situation is not only a joke, it is dangerous.
The way it was rushed through is a complete disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
We have one for celebrities and disgraced politicians and criminals.
For a man who won the Open and then the US Open the following year to now suffer this ignominy is a disgrace to the game of golf.
You have instead brought shame and disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
Disgraced may be he who thinks ill.
I didn't disgrace myself with a comment like, ‘I figured as much,’ but instead stared at her with an interested look planted on my face.
The cross-questioning ranged from his birth, family background, education, hobbies, language proficiency to, most disgracefully, whether he had defaulted on a mission assigned by his superiors.
You are a disgrace to the House of Representatives.
If England lose this series, they need not feel disgraced. Times, Sunday Times
Augustus firmly imposed his discipline on his men: he once dismissed an entire legion in disgrace, and didn't hesitate to decimate troops who would give in to the enemy.
These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
In 1988 Johnson became a disgraced Olympic 100m champion who is still branded the most notorious cheat in sporting history. Ben Johnson: 'My revelations will shock the sporting world'
She was eventually sent home early in disgrace.
I think this is a disgraceful sham, and I won't apologise for having a problem with it.
If he's in a bad mood, he'll throw stones, and his overarm spin wouldn't disgrace the English team!
The report said there had been a disgraceful want of proper care.
I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer.
You are a disgrace to Obama and are only succeeding in fracturing the Dems even more. Heavy turnout reported, few problems seen
She has said it's a disgrace that young couples who saved and borrowed for their dream home should end up with a monstrosity virtually in their back gardens.
Their father fell into disgrace and lost his business.
Conception and disgrace somehow eluded her.
The weak are obliged to submit to his exactions, or fly the country; and the aumil, unable to reduce the more powerful, is compelled to enter into a disgraceful compromise. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice?
France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient counsel in the cabinets of princes, and has taught kings to tremble at what will hereafter be called the delusive plausibilities of moral politicians. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
Britain's top policeman should have the power to appoint his own senior officers after disgraced commander Ali Dizaei was "disastrously" picked by politicians, a former head of Scotland Yard has claimed. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation. The Monastery
Meanwhile "inebriation in all its most brutal and disgraceful shapes" takes its moral toll upon the masses in the form of vile oaths, imprecations, naughty songs, and pervasive "ribaldry"; thus procedures that are intended to facilitate public participation actually create an "earthly hell" on the deck of the outlaw vessel (405). Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
It is a national disgrace for the country that pioneered IVF. The Sun
Disgraced may be he who thinks ill.
You have brought shame and disgrace on yourself and your family.
Months later, after Nixon had resigned in disgrace, humor columnist Art Buchwald jokingly give Graham a small bronze wringer .
It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
Our exclusion is a scandal and a disgrace to the local Council.
Some of them, and I hasten to emphasise ‘some’ are a disgrace to what ought to be a noble profession.
It is an absolute scandal, a disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
Not only is that morally mistaken, but it is also militarily ruinous, for any armed service which is based upon or rooted in its members' self-love is doomed to failure and disgrace.
We have engaged in disgraceful shenanigans to keep asbestos off the list of proscribed substances under the Rotterdam Convention. Archive 2009-04-01
This is a national disgrace, a symbol of how far we have fallen short of these high aspirations we had of our new parly only ten years ago .. A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses
And chances are, the PM may have to leave the country a failed and disgraced leader like others before him.
Lobbyist Kevin A. Ring, 40, faces charges of conspiracy, fraud and making an illegal gratuity as part of a lavish four-year scheme that ladled out more than $1 million in meals, tickets and trips to federal officials in exchange for benefits to clients of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Retrial of Abramoff lobbyist Ring starts, tests corruption fight in capital
He resigned in disgrace and the scandal saw Labour ratings dramatically plunge five per cent that week. The Sun
His Shibboleth was, that the disgrace of the State must be wiped out by the repeal of the Yazoo Act; and _repeal_ rang from every mouth, from Savannah to the mountains. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
Equally disgraceful is the way they have been written out of history. Times, Sunday Times
Henceforward she must feel humiliated and disgraced in his sight. North and South
Two million pounds is an obscene amount to spend on one disgraced individual. The Sun
That is their excuse to send the Special Branch, traditionally regarded as MI5's footsoldiers, on a disgraceful fishing expedition.
However, the manifold blunders and petty jealousies of this official are now producing such grievous results that his downfall is almost certain, and if his removal in disgrace from a position which he has proved himself totally unfit for be considered a satisfaction to those he has injured, why then I, among others, am morally assured of that amount of vengeance, at least. The Civil War In America
It is a disgrace in political terms, because it calls into contempt the very idea of political and executive accountability.
I am rejoiced to learn that the two factions of Texas Baptists, after having for months past denounced each other in language that smelled of sulphur and would have disgraced opposing parties of Parisian gamins -- after resorting to all the petty meanness of peanut politics to control the flesh-pots -- have kissed and hugged, slobbered and boohooed each on the other's brisket. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your character, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods. The Deerslayer
Withdrawing the money to help people in disgrace is criminal. Think Progress » Sen. Kit Bond: Mowing Down Lawn Mower Reform
THE Government are disgracefully dragging their feet over banning the deadly drug meow meow. The Sun
It is an absolute scandal, a disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
The Opposition believes his handling of this case has been a disgrace and is enough for his head to go.
I presume you were rather surprised not to see my _consequential_ name in the papers [1] amongst the orators of our 2nd speech day, but unfortunately some wit who had formerly been at Harrow, suppressed the merits of Long [2], Farrer [3] and myself, who were always supposed to take the Lead in Harrow eloquence, and by way of a _hoax_ thought proper to insert a panegyric on those speakers who were really and truly allowed to have rather disgraced than distinguished themselves, of course for the _wit_ of the thing, the best were left out and the worst inserted, which accounts for the _Gothic omission_ of my The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
She disgraced herself by drinking too much at the banquet.
It's a bloody disgrace that some war widows don't get a decent pension.
The boss of a Basingstoke-based ISP has slammed Britain's wholesale unmetered Net access product, FRIACO, as a ‘national disgrace’.
For a moment, it looked as if the company's implosion would be the disgraceful disproof of that.
One raged: 'Your father has disgraced my club. The Sun
his grades were disgracefully low

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