disgrace
Definitions
- Ignominy, disgrace.
- The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect
- The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
- The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.
- The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame
- Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.
- Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit
- An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
- An act of unkindness; a disfavor
- To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon
Equivalents
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Azərbaycan dilirüsvay
Българскисрам
বাংলাঅপমান
Catalàdesgràcia
Ελληνικάαίσχοςαισχύνηανυποληψίαατιμάζωατίμασμαατιμασμόςατίμωσηδυσμένειακαταισχύνωντροπήντροπιάζωόνειδοςπομπήστίγμα
Esperantomalhonorigi
Eestihäbi
Gaeilgeadhnáirigh
Magyarszégyen
Հայերենխայտառակություն
Íslenskaóvirðing
Қазақ тілімасқара
Кыргызчамаскара
Latviešukauns
മലയാളംമാനക്കേട്
Polskibezcześćblamażhańbakaszanakichakompromitacjakompromitowaćniełaskaniesławaporutaskompromitowaćsromota
Portuguêsdesgraça
తెలుగుఅవమానించు
Türkçeyüz karası
اردوبدنامی
O'zbekchauyat
Examples
“I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell⟳ / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?”
“Now she lives in disgrace.”
“His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.”
“Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last⟳, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick⟳ enough in a day to pay⟳ the trouble⟳ of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.”
“"You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan.”
“As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require⟳ it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know⟳, what to expect⟳; And be, as it were, in a Wood.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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