Use "disgraceful" in a sentence

1. Yet, it has been vaulted to the point that we accept, without question, the saying: 'A picture is worth a thousand words,' this does a disgraceful injustice to the picture however flattering it may be to the language of words and wordsmiths

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2. “For this disgraceful act the gods have determined that they be executed

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3. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct

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4. To trade, was disgraceful to a gentleman; and to lend money at interest, which at that time was considered as usury, and prohibited bylaw, would have been still more so

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5. From my view it is utterly disgraceful and shows their lack of moral fibre and cowardness quite clearly

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6. If unlucky, it all depended on the Sergeants mood, the rest of the platoon would be punished for “being f disgraceful and inviting the f wrath of God not only on himself, but also on his beloved sergeant f unfairly too since he is f known far and wide to be a God f fearing man

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7. The disgraceful episodes of child abuse by some clergy – even though most of it has taken place in the Roman Catholic Church – unfortunately has, by association, tainted everyone in the Christian church

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8. techniques were some of the most disgraceful we had ever witnessed

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9. Deacon Baxter said, as we came out, 'What a disgraceful exhibition!' _I_ said, looking her fairly in the eye, 'They are all beautiful singers, and none of YOUR choir, Mrs

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10. 17 For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness,

11. "The meaning of the dark and squalid church is: the Church has lost its dignity and power, as a result of its disgraceful and shameful acts for the sake of wealth and glory

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12. 7 For therefore since nature has conferred on you the most excellent flesh of this animal do you loathe it? 8 It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness to reject the boons of nature

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13. 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time and that scorned by all men for cowardice 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness by not contending to the death for our divine law

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14. 17 For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures

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15. myself that there was really nothing disgraceful in asking a bit of

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16. 6 Disgraceful brethren yea very disgraceful is it and unworthy of the conduct which is in Christ that it should be reported that the most firm and ancient Church of the Corinthians has on account of one or two persons made sedition against its presbyters

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17. disgraceful devastation and have hope for a future

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18. As the publican and the Pharisee illustrated good and bad religion, their divorce practices served to contrast the better marriage laws of the Jewish code with the disgraceful laxity of the Pharisaic interpretations of these Mosaic divorce statutes

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19. The disgraceful attendance report for December would be due the first day back, January 5th

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20. "That's disgraceful!" she declared when they slowed to a walk in a narrow, cobblestoned street

21. disgraceful to our-selves only

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22. It would be disgraceful if they were not to show up after inviting guests to attend with them; that would simply not be tolerated in England, and the perpetrator would be ostracized from their peers and the privileges conferred upon them

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23. “Yes,” Lord Ashburn agreed, “it’s certainly more impressive than that disgraceful opera we went to in Vienna just before the war

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24. How you acted was disgraceful!”

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25. In Nancy’s history, this disgraceful scramble to safety and the subsequent exodus of most of the Australian servicemen in Darwin to other towns to the South would be sarcastically called ‘The Great Darwin Handicap’

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26. Swearing at that disgraceful sight, Ingrid grabbed the microphone of her onboard radio and called her operation center

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27. ‘’What type of ship?’’ Asked the commander of the second armada, which had been sent urgently by the Emperor following the disgraceful defeat of the first armada

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28. It is the disgraceful

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29. But all this is disgraceful unbelief

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30. fend for himself in London was disgraceful

31. Remember: The worst sin to a western Christian is having done something that shouldn’t be done, in a dispirited and disgraceful way against the truth

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32. appealing trait and he believed that it was, by no means disgraceful

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33. Others hold the view that learning magic is not disgraceful or forbidden, relying on the story of our master Solomon when he took control of the jinn

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34. Some people hold the view that learning magic is not disgraceful or forbidden

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35. It was disgraceful, very disgraceful and perhaps one of the most tough time for me

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36. 'But what does one do, then,' I asked, looking at her disgraceful little mouth, 'in a case like this? You can't borrow somebody else's--it wouldn't be being select

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37. Now they will shrink to their normal size, and you will at last set your disgraceful garden in order

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38. That writer's books you tell me about, the books the virtuous in England will not read because his private life was disgraceful, beautiful books, you say, into which went his best, in which his spirit showed how bright it was, how he had kept it apart and clean, I shall get them all and read them all

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39. By the time the car passed through Colchester she was quite overwhelmed by compunction, and decided that never in her life had she heard of conduct more disgraceful

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40. Only by seizing her by the arm did he prevent their both falling over in an unspeakably ignominious confusion; and as he had never seen her demented before or anything approaching it, he at once put it down to Fanny--how or why he was unable to imagine, but Fanny was somehow at the bottom of this disgraceful frenzy

41. _He_ was here to see about it, and the disgraceful orgy of the previous night, if it had the effect of bringing _him_ back, would end by being a blessing

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42. She believed so firmly what he had told her over there away in Kökensee, where of course a man had to say things in order to get a beginning made, about the friendly frequent journeyings of other people, she had so heartily accepted his assurance that it was absurd and disgraceful in its suggestion of evil-mindedness not to travel frankly anywhere with anybody--"Are we not the children of light, you and I?" he had asked her--the things a man says! he thought; but they should not be brought up against him in this manner, clad in an invincible armour of acceptance--"And shall we be hindered in our free comings and goings by the dingy scruples of those heavy others, the groping and afraid children of darkness?"--that plainly the idea that she was doing anything even remotely wrong had not occurred to her

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43. But she was ashamed of herself, ashamed of all she had done, ashamed of the disgraceful way she had treated this man, terribly disillusioned, terribly out of conceit with herself, and she stood there changing colour, hanging her head, humbled, penitent, every shred of the dignity she had been trained to gone, simply somebody who has been very silly and is very sorry

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44. Then, afraid that she might after all burst out into loud, disgraceful sobbing, she turned and went upstairs

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45. Indeed he went even further by stating that there was a disgraceful absence of leadership and strategy which shamed the Met

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46. as he had said disgraceful things about his dear wife whom he loved more than anything in the

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47. Submission is not something disgraceful and oppressive, as the Devil whispers in our ears

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48. “That's disgraceful and negligent to leave that mark on her,” he scowled

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49. Two huge brown eyes glared at White as if he had committed an act of disgraceful injustice

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50. And there was another of them on a steamer last week used the most disgraceful

51. ) But he saw how monstrously the thought of her disgraceful, shameful position was torturing her and had long tortured her

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52. Convinced that the subterfuges of the law were disgraceful, she wrote a

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53. It is like a charge of being blind in one eye, a moral disablement, a sort of disgraceful calamity that must he carried off with a jaunty bearing--a sort of thing I am not capable of

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54. You are making a most disgraceful connection, and such a one as your family are unanimous in disapproving

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55. And yet what greater proof can there be of a bad and disgraceful state of education than this, that not only artisans and the meaner sort of people need the skill of first-rate physicians and judges, but also those who would profess to have had a liberal education?

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56. Of all things, he said, the most disgraceful

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57. Is not that still more disgraceful?

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58. Yes, he said, that is still more disgraceful

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59. This she did to give him a severe lesson, and to correct him of the disgraceful fault of telling lies—the most disgraceful fault that a boy can have

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60. The puppet might then have told him the whole story; he might have informed him of the disgraceful conditions that had been made between the dog and the polecats; but he remembered that the dog was dead and he thought to himself:

61. In his (Grinder's) opinion it was disgraceful that a member of the council should deliberately try to wreck a project which would do so much towards relieving the unemployed

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62. , but for the disgraceful conduct of Dr Weakling, who had the bad taste to suggest that the amount was about double what the drain could possibly have cost to construct, that it was of no use to the Corporation at all, and that they would merely acquire the liability to keep it in repair

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63. It was disgraceful that Richard was going along with Friar Murdo’s ridiculous accusation

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64. He said sympathetically: “That’ s disgraceful

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65. "Yes, sir, I have, but the shock of this disgraceful exposure has bewildered me

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66. I suspected something from what you told me, and had a look at one or two; they were simply disgraceful

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67. Towards evening he was always drunk, and he had often been locked up after all sorts of ludicrous and disgraceful scandals, but he was a favorite both of his comrades and his superior officers

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68. To decline the flattering and dangerous appointment at Tashkend would have been, Vronsky had till then considered, disgraceful and impossible

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69. Eventually, in a peculiarly disgraceful business, he contrived to throw the whole odium upon me in such a way that I was forced to leave the Argentine for ever, and to seek a career in Europe

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70. At last, after a disgraceful miss, he flung his gun and his hat on the ground

71. He’d been infuriated enough when his own inquisitors started finding excuses to slow the processing of the camp’s inmates after the Sarkyn fiasco and—especially—after that disgraceful incident at Camp Chihiro four months ago, and Tymahk’s attitude had only made that worse

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72. And Father Merriwether intends to call and he talks like he was in his dotage and says he’s grateful creature’s house he has acted in a disgraceful way

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73. And there was another of them on a steamer last week used the most disgraceful language to the respectable family of a civil councillor, his wife and daughter

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74. "I have been led to think about your aunt Julia, and how she was left in poverty only because she married a poor man, an act which was not disgraceful, since he was not unworthy

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75. "That is what is generally done when there is anything disgraceful in a family

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76. But none of that disgraceful history has one iota to do with Dante Halleyville or this trial, and Mr

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77. Most of our recorded history was pretty disgraceful, to say the least

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78. ‘Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie- I can’t repeat them- that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight

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79. From the pretense of illness, from his daughter’s distress, and by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, the count saw clearly that something had gone wrong during his absence, but it was so terrible for him to think that anything disgraceful had happened to his beloved daughter, and he so prized his own cheerful tranquillity, that he avoided inquiries and tried to assure himself that nothing particularly had happened; and he was only dissatisfied that her indisposition delayed their return to the country

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80. It is disgraceful, a stain on our army, and as for him, he ought, it seems to me, not to live

81. It was as a punishment that he was ordered to continue with them, because all prisoners are disgraceful and dishonourable creatures in the eyes of the Japanese, and to guard them and escort them is an insulting and a menial job fit only for the lowest type of man

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82. But what was all this to me with my broken heart, and illegitimate soul, and what had I done to Rowan with my furtive, disgraceful whispers? And Michael, that powerful and soft-spoken Michael, who had trusted me with his wife's heart, what had I done to him?

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83. But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions

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