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DISGRACED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffering shame
Synonyms:
discredited; disgraced; dishonored; shamed
Classified under:
Similar:
ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb disgrace
Context examples:
Here was another fine chance to make the crushing speech and the stately exit, but Meg never thought of doing either, and disgraced herself forever in Jo's eyes by meekly whispering, Yes, John, and hiding her face on Mr. Brooke's waistcoat.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Every part of it brought pain and humiliation, of some sort or other; but, compared with the evil to Harriet, all was light; and she would gladly have submitted to feel yet more mistaken—more in error—more disgraced by mis-judgment, than she actually was, could the effects of her blunders have been confined to herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She would have dismissed the subject so, but I was too full of it to allow that, and insisted on telling her how it happened that I had disgraced myself, and what chain of accidental circumstances had had the theatre for its final link.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I felt myself disgraced and deserted forever, but didn't blame him a particle, and was scrambling my papers together, meaning to rush upstairs and shake myself hard, when in he came, as brisk and beaming as if I'd covered myself in glory.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I think being disgraced in school is a great deal tryinger than anything bad boys can do," said Amy, shaking her head, as if her experience of life had been a deep one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
