How to Use disgrace in a Sentence

disgrace

1 of 2 verb
Definition of disgracenext
Synonyms for disgracenext
  • He felt he had disgraced himself by failing at school.
  • Many feel that the mayor has disgraced the town government by accepting personal favors from local businesspeople.
  • May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The service was then known as the Night Rider, and the ride would not have disgraced a rodeo.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • And the event has been early to re-platform artists who have been disgraced.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Templars were condemned en masse as having disgraced the French flag and the country.
    — Dan Jones, Time, 13 Oct. 2017
  • French Premier Pierre Mendes-France disgraced himself at home by drinking milk on the air.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The Nashville Statement, then, sounds like the death rattle of a movement that has disgraced itself.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Despite the rhetoric from his administration, the truth is Biden chose defeat and disgrace in Afghanistan.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Now, Girardi stands disgraced, disbarred and charged in two states with bilking his clients.
    — Siobhan O'Driscoll, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But disgrace, debt and depression are three D’s that leave room for recovery.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The single biggest take away is that the leadership under Jim Comey was disgraced by this report.
    — Fox News, 17 June 2018
  • And then Ohr, even after Steele has been discredited and disgraced, starts working with him.
    — Fox News, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Their would-be leaders are disgracing themselves trying to keep up.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • But this one swallowed his pride, and whispered flattery to his abuser, like Wormtongue in another kingdom, and praised the wisdom of the man who disgraced him.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The serial liar has disgraced the House of Representatives and has deceived the public.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • As sheriff of deep-red Maricopa County, Arpaio disgraced himself time and again.
    — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This is praise, of a sort: for over a century now, the Windsors have been in a class of their own for providing spectacle, scandal, feud, tragedy, and disgrace—and doing very well out of it.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Characters fall in and out of love, marry up, disgrace themselves, disappear for hundreds of pages, die.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Republicans are selling their souls to the devil and disgracing themselves to maintain their seats in Congress.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The case is the latest chapter in the same rural Hampton County where disgraced lawyer Alex Murdoch, was convicted of murdering his wife and son.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The man was a cherubic young pastor whose self-worth issues and deep belief in his interpretation of Scripture led to disgrace.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Numerous celebrities, sports stars and politicians have been publicly disgraced after appearing to try to dodge the draft.
    — Eun-Young Jeong, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
  • He ultimately got convicted of crimes and had to resign and disgrace it’s today in Ohio, the news podcast discussion from cleveland.com and the plane dealer.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The Silicon Valley wunderkind went from deity to disgrace in spectacular fashion, and Seyfried says changing any of it would have been, well, a crime.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Every time the president disgraces himself or outrages the nation, Democrats run to the cameras to register their disgust.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 17 June 2019
  • Any other outcome would disgrace the ruling coalition or drive Italy out of the eurozone, wreaking havoc on Europe’s banks.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • As a leading public figure with the capacity either to inspire (à la Einstein) or to disgrace (à la Roth)?
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The flag waving, at a performance by a Lebanese band with an openly gay singer, was shown on social media sites and provoked criticism as an attempt to disgrace Egypt.
    — Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • However, in the same game Kent would disgrace himself by slapping Celtic captain Scott Brown, receiving a retrospective two match ban in the process.
    — SI.com, 12 July 2019
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disgrace

2 of 2 noun
  • She was forced to leave in disgrace.
  • Many feel that the mayor has brought disgrace upon the town.
  • The health-care system is a national disgrace.
  • His table manners are a disgrace.
  • The secret was protected out of a fear of political disgrace.
  • The defense is a disgrace to one of the great programs.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Tonight’s State of the Union address is set to be a disgrace.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 7 Feb. 2023
  • If so, the shame and disgrace will rest with the accusers, not the accused.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Plants are dying all over the park, and Palm Canyon is a disgrace.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • Now Mythoclast is here and the iconic weapon is a disgrace to its name.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • The disgrace and anger over the outcome and treaty terms would give way to the rage and hatred that became Nazism.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The way our votes were taken away is a disgrace to our Nation.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • What is a disgrace is a guest who presumes to scold, much less kick, the other guests.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For the 95-year-old queen, the threat to Charles is, in some ways, an even bigger headache than Andrew’s disgrace.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The Twilight saga’s treatment of the Quileute tribe is pretty much a disgrace.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • When a man was unfaithful, the disgrace of it was somehow with the woman who’d failed to hang on to him.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • But what these thugs have done to my family is a disgrace.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 16 June 2023
  • If, if that’s true, That is nothing for the Democrats to celebrate that is a disgrace for the nation.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Snyder’s tenure was marked by failure on the field and disgrace off of it.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • While the manner of our departure was a disgrace, the 20-year war on terror was not.
    — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Bragg is a disgrace, the biggest threat to law and order in Manhattan in decades.
    — The Editors, National Review, 12 July 2022
  • The way it was done was so – such a disaster and such a disgrace to our veterans that served in Afghanistan.
    — ABC News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Ugh, this season of DRUK is a complete and utter disgrace to the nation.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Boris Johnson's term as British leader was a mix of high drama and low disgrace.
    — Jill Lawless, ajc, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Smooth low-speed progress isn't easy, and since the car turns the head of every pedestrian, stalling will bring public disgrace.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2022
  • This woman is a disgrace, and it shouldn’t be allowed to happen in our country.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 4 May 2023
  • My father-in-law has said plenty of times how tattoos are tacky, a disgrace and ugly.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Prepare to be outraged:These NFL fan rankings are a disgrace.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • Back in 1990, the downfall of European pop duo Milli Vanilli seemed like an open-and-shut case of disgrace.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Nixon got his pardon and a partial image makeover after leaving the White House in disgrace.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022

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