as in notorious
not respectable
disgraceful disruptions at the graduation ceremonies
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Recent Examples of disgraceful
This is a disgraceful way to celebrate our freedom heritage.
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U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Sports historians believe the debacle may have been the most disgraceful thing ever endured by Cincinnati fans that didn’t involve Pete Rose.
—Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
This is disgraceful and immoral.
—Armando Garcia, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
The whole thing has been a disgraceful boondoggle, even by government standards.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Both had been held at El Helicoide, the notorious Caracas detention complex widely associated with political detentions.—
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Also this week, grocery chain Wegmans is collecting your biometric data and 2010s cupcake darling Sprinkles is closing, as is famed (or perhaps more accurately, notorious) LA restaurant Horses.—
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The next chapter in Murphy’s anthology will examine the infamous American crime, trial and aftermath.—
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The same filmmakers who had made his family infamous in 1973 were summoned, once more, to capture his final days.—
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The bill is meant to explicitly prohibit that kind of shady transaction.—
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As would giving Law an award for playing a shady restaurateur in Black Rabbit.—
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In addition to the murder charge, Thompson faces charges of committing a terroristic act, aggravated assault, engaging in violent criminal group activity and endangering the welfare of a minor, according to the jail roster.—
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The discovery helped open the door to more recent developments such as tinkering with the genetic makeup of living things, treating disease by inserting genes into patients, identifying human remains and criminal suspects from DNA samples, and tracing family trees and ancient human ancestors.—
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In addition to being immoral, CFA’s support for BDS likely violates state law, AB 2844, which prohibits California from contracting with entities that engage in discrimination, including against Jews or Israelis.—
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The film follows the deliciously immoral, widowed Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who maneuvers, deceives and seduces her way through London and across her relatives' country estates in an effort to find a wealthy husband for herself and her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark).—
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Through a mix of fiction and nonfiction, Questions 27 & 28 introduces us to three generations of characters who were all impacted by FDR’s internment, a novelistic investigation of a shameful American chapter.—
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The decision to avoid the front line is widely seen as shameful in Ukraine, which has fought a defensive war against its much larger and nuclear-armed neighbor.—
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“Disgraceful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgraceful. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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