Disgrace
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor.
To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.
To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.
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Disgrace Quotations
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
Colin Powell
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
Disgrace Translations
disgrace in French is disgracient, disgracier, disgrace, disgraciez
disgrace in Latin is dedecus, infamo, labes labis, opprobrium, rubor
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