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Recent Examples of disgraceful The country’s education problem is lower education, as shown by the few proficiency tests still permitted in elementary, middle, and high schools in Connecticut, and by their disgraceful performance gaps. Chris Powell, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025 Who wants to buy a Jaguar after looking at that disgraceful ad. Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2025 The short and disgraceful political career of former NY Congressman George Santos has officially ended with his reporting to prison on July 25th. Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025 However, if there is something disgraceful about the Galveston Plan, the focus of Cockerell’s book, Schulz does not allude to it. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for disgraceful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgraceful
Adjective
  • However, just as wedding bells chime, chaos ensues when the notorious Ghost Bandits raid his bank.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While crawfish frogs might be notorious for their rap sheets full of B&Es, they are also said to have a distinct sound when calling, almost like the sound of someone snoring.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1996, the now-infamous Cinderella Castle Cake design was unveiled for the park's 25th anniversary.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Mega-Prisons El Salvador’s sprawling new mega-prisons, including the infamous CECOT, are at the heart of this apparatus.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe not something drastic like a world war, slavery or the Holocaust, but there’s always shady s–t going on.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meursault also starts hanging out with his shady and brutish French neighbor, Raymond (Pierre Lottin), whose abusive relationship with an Algerian girl (Hajar Bouzaouit) eventually leads to the murder.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Office of the Inspector General launched a criminal investigation and determined the shots had been fired from where two FBI agents and an Oregon State Police officer had been standing.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Abrego was brought back in June to face criminal charges of transporting migrants living in the United States illegally.
    Ted Hesson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This folly—which Iran has sternly warned against—is immoral, unjustified, and unlawful.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • To argue that their mere presence is proof that the book is dangerous or its author must be as immoral as his characters misses the point.
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Dolphins christened the club’s 60th season with one of the most shameful performances in franchise annals.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Despite that litigation, WB claimed that Midjourney has recently removed copyright protections in its supposedly shameful ongoing bid for profits.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Disgraceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgraceful. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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