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disgraced

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dis·grace  (ds-grs)
n.
1. Loss of honor, respect, or reputation; shame.
2. The condition of being strongly and generally disapproved.
3. One that brings disfavor or discredit: Your handwriting is a disgrace.
tr.v. dis·graced, dis·grac·ing, dis·grac·es
1. To bring shame or dishonor on: disgraced the entire community.
2. To deprive of favor or good repute; treat with disfavor: The family was disgraced by the scandal.

[French disgrâce, from Italian disgrazia : dis-, not (from Latin; see dis-) + grazia, favor (from Latin grtia, from grtus, pleasing; see gwer-2 in Indo-European roots).]

dis·gracer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.disgraced - suffering shame
ashamed - feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat"

disgraced
adjective shamed, humiliated, discredited, branded, degraded, mortified, in disgrace, dishonoured, stigmatized, under a cloud, in the doghouse (informal) the disgraced leader of the coup
Translations
disgraced [dɪsˈgreɪst] adj [person] → disgracié(e)


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For some time he filled a minor post, but was eventually disgraced and exiled to the province of Hunan.
Benjamin worked away, with great industry and a good deal of skill, at his occupation, using one hand to raise up his antagonist, while he knocked him over with the other; for he would have been disgraced in his own estimation, had he struck a blow on a fallen adversary.
But Van Brandt knows it; and, besides, I have (no matter how innocently) disgraced it.
 
 
 
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