disgrace
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Graham believes their activities will ruin the program and disgrace the memory of its founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Dyer said that the quality of the water was "a disgrace".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
As a consequence, Lyalin was ordered to return to Moscow in disgrace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"I can't believe it, seven years old - it's just a disgrace."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Until today she neither knew nor cared how, because the subject was uninteresting, but if someone had a baby without being married, her family was plunged into deep disgrace.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
The half-hour series stars Glen Powell as Russ Holliday, a former star college quarterback for a big-name team who disgraces himself during the Rose Bowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Officers aren’t allowed to conduct themselves in a way that personally disgraces them or dishonors the military profession, according to military law cited by the newspaper.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
The Monday column by Dylan Hernández, ostensibly about Kershaw making the All-Star team, disgraces the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
What’s disappointing is the degree to which its exercise of muscle exposes and disgraces others.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
“We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy,” he said.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
She later said she wished she had never met the late disgraced financier.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
There unfolds a somewhat Wodehousian investigation involving undercover spies and scheming holdovers from Oswald Mosley’s disgraced fascist party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Emmy-nominated, darkly comic thriller about a unit of disgraced British spies — starring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristen Scott Thomas — remains sharp and propulsive, one of the best series on TV.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
In early results from the special election runoff to complete the congressional term of disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, state Sen. Aisha Wahab was in the lead late Tuesday by a narrow margin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
She imagined all of Herat knew this morning how she’d disgraced herself.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
He argues they ruined his life by painting him as a callous man who had broken the moral and legal rules of war, disgracing his country in the process.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
"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
“You are disgracing our city,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told protesters.
From Seattle Times ● 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
Vocabulary lists containing disgrace
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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