How to Use disgraceful in a Sentence

disgraceful

adjective
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  • And, yes, this did ease the pain of that disgraceful past a bit.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The workers at the Capitol cleaned up a disgraceful mess that day.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • What’s been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful.
    — Rick Rothacker, charlotteobserver, 2 Mar. 2018
  • What is disgraceful is that Pelosi would play the race card to protect her power.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
  • If the town did respond, the pickings were disgraceful.
    — Morgan Jerkins, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Dear Lost: What your husband did to you was disgraceful.
    — cleveland, 26 Oct. 2020
  • What happened on @united was disgraceful and doesn’t need to happen again.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The truth is that while everyone agrees that our tax system is a disgraceful mess, that’s about where the agreement ends.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • According to Davis, parents in the Facebook group where the screenshot was shared said the poster was disgraceful.
    — Laura Anaya-Morga, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The network said in a statement that Knowles’ comment was disgraceful.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Because a marlin is a disgraceful babysitter on the land.
    — Julie Vick, The New Yorker, 7 July 2022
  • With the World Cup less than six months away, even the suggestion the women are being short-changed will be seen as petty and disgraceful.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The cumulative effect of all this is that Irving is talking his way out of the NBA, one disgraceful tweet at a time.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This has been a disgraceful display of politics at its worst.
    — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Democrats want to close this disgraceful school chapter, but parents aren’t nearly so willing to move on.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The resolution was all the more disgraceful in that the call for Aushungerung came at the moment when 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine have come to Poland and more are still expected.
    — Ryszard Legutko, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • There were wild tackles, wilder dives and a disgraceful moment of play-acting from Quaresma.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 25 June 2018
  • The Padres’ record is at once astonishing and disgraceful.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2017
  • First, there is our government’s disgraceful pull-out from Afghanistan.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Of all the disgraceful rulings the Supreme Court has made in its 227-year history — and the lowlight reel is fairly lengthy — the decision in Buck v. Bell still stands out as one of the ugliest.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
  • Mossad is not away from this disgraceful, terrible crime.
    — Fares Akram, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • This radio ad is disgraceful & has no place in our society.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • And the homeless problems in both cities are not just disgraceful in the context of California, but on a national scale.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 10 Dec. 2019
  • In fact, much of the college basketball world, and beyond, has seen the disgraceful double standard of how the NCAA has treated its women players vs. the men.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The disgraceful handling of Tagovailoa shows that isn’t really the case.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • His penalty, which proved decisive, was taken in a cool fashion amid disgraceful racist chanting from the Cagliari fans.
    — SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The Democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham, an effort to delay, distract and resist.
    — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The Thanksgiving eve 6-0 loss to Toronto was disgraceful, and Glendening spoke afterwards of the team needing to show pride.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2019
  • At a time when world politics are in a disgraceful state, how should a civilized adult comport himself?
    — Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
  • More disgraceful is how Biden allowed, and even encouraged, such a failure to occur.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022

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