disgracenoun [ U ]
uk/dɪsˈɡreɪs/us/dɪsˈɡreɪs/B2 embarrassment and the loss of other people's respect, or behaviour that causes this:
They were sent home in disgrace.
He brought disgrace on the whole team by falsifying the results.
be a disgrace
B2 to be a very bad situation:
Three families living in one room - it's a disgrace!
[ + that ] It's a disgrace that the government spends so much on guns and so little on education.
be a disgrace to sb/sth
C2 to be so bad or unacceptable that you make people lose respect for the group or activity you are connected to:
You're a disgrace (to the family) - what a way to behave!
More examples
- It's a disgrace that some war widows don't get a decent pension.
- I think the way she's been treated is a downright disgrace.
- She found the disgrace of losing her job very hard to deal with.
- There is no disgrace in admitting that you cannot do something - it's always best to ask for help.
- Andrew behaved so badly on the school trip that he was sent home in disgrace.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- grubby
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- lower your sights idiom
- peg
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Morally wrong and evil
disgraceverb [ T ]
uk/dɪsˈɡreɪs/us/dɪsˈɡreɪs/to make people stop respecting you or your family, team, etc. by doing something very bad:
You have disgraced us all with your behaviour.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- grubby
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- lower your sights idiom
- peg
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disgraced
adjective uk/dɪsˈɡreɪst/us/dɪsˈɡreɪst/
a disgraced politician