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Recent Examples of disgraceful That accounts for the disgraceful smearing of Anthony Fauci, the nation’s most distinguished epidemiological expert until his retirement from the NIH in 2023, by Republicans who absurdly tried to blame him for creating COVID-19. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025 What kids are wearing to school these days would have been disgraceful in my day. Matt Richtel, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025 But, first, the President’s disgraceful Gaza plans. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025 This is a disgraceful manufacturing error that needs to be erased. Nick Thomas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disgraceful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgraceful
Adjective
  • The most notorious incident involved Bret Hart during WCW Starrcade 1999, where a mistimed superkick from Goldberg resulted in a severe concussion that ultimately contributed to Hart's premature retirement.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The show is about a mission to bring down notorious Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Classic Farmhouse, East Hampton This house has quite the storied history: its former owners were the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn (who later went on to buy perhaps the most infamous house in the Hamptons: Grey Gardens).
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The pair arrived at the International Space Station on June 5 aboard the infamous Boeing Starliner but could not return due to discovered technical issues with the spacecraft.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • It’s implied that before going into construction, Levon had brought his military training into civilian life in some shady (though likely heroic) capacity or another — maybe even kidnap recovery.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
  • During a recent conversation with legendary radio host Big Boy, the 26-year-old spoke about her haters and shady tension that led to this notion.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • When Natalia Grace was adopted from Ukraine into the Barnett family as a six-year-old child, no one could have foreseen that the situation would devolve into something that spurred court battles, criminal charges, and multiple documentaries and shows.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • If convicted of criminal infringement of a copyright, Strange faces a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump’s contrived veneer is being ripped away to reveal an immoral, mendacious, transactional opportunist, without a shred of loyalty to anyone or anything but himself.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Before these studies, the cause of TB was presumed to be primarily constitutional, by either an inherent predisposition or from unhealthy or immoral lifestyles.
    Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Floridians outraged by shameful anti-worker heat law.
    Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Yes, April Perry, an eminently qualified candidate and someone who would have ended the shameful history of the white male club of U.S. attorneys in Chicago, should have sailed through Congress.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025

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“Disgraceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgraceful. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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