disgracing

Example Sentences

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“I have learned hard lessons from this experience, including disgracing my family and destroying my career and reputation,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

Jurors accepted prosecutors' argument that Webster had "spearheaded" an attack on police lines and that he was responsible for "disgracing a democracy that he once fought honourably to protect and serve".

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

"The disgracing of a dead body and setting it on fire are strictly forbidden in Islam," the court ruled.

From Reuters • Apr. 19, 2022

“You are disgracing this city, you are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country,” she added.

From Fox News • May 30, 2020

They couldn’t live in the neighborhood after the way Johnny was disgracing them.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith