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How to use disgrace in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun, verb

Disgrace means the condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Example: “Now she lives in disgrace.”

Examples of disgrace by meaning

nounThe state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.

  • Now she lives in disgrace.

nounSomeone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.

  • His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.
  • "You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 162

More sentences with disgrace

  • That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.From the entry honorable
  • The optics are bad: a disgraced prince living in the luxury of a huge crown estate property.2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, “Dealing with ‘Andrew problem’ could help ease William’s accession to the throne”, in The Guardian…. From the entry optics
  • Every time somebody said “disgraced boy-toy,” we each chugged a 'Gansett.2015, Bruce DeSilva, A Scourge of Vipers, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 238. From the entry Gansett
  • Behrends has chiseled the official Senate bust of the disgraced Vice President Spiro T.2008 June 1, Richard Sandomir, “From Clay to Bronze to the Hall”, in New York Times. From the entry midstroll
  • But to ignore or attempt to cosmeticize Kelly's history of political and institutional racism is a disgrace.2000 January 7, Don Rose, “What a Whitewash”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry cosmeticize
  • Thousands of pedophiles are forced to hide their natural orientation for fear of social disgrace.1995, Thomas E. Schmidt, “Sexuality from the Beginning”, in Straight & Narrow? Compassion & Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate, Downers…. From the entry pedophilophobic
  • "The whole thing is the most absolute bilge and a disgrace to our legislature."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which the Notorious Criminal Gets what the British Law Considers to be His Deserts”, in…. From the entry bilge
  • Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off O’Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[V]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry tack
  • No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender!1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 17, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. From the entry daunt
  • On the other hand an unprofessional commercialist is a menace and a disgrace.1912 December, Wilhelm Bodemann, “Applied Cooperation”, in The Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, volume I, number 12…. From the entry propagandum
  • In a post on X, he said, "What a disgrace!2025 March 11, Irina Marica, “Călin Georgescu barred from presidential race as Romanian Constitutional Court rejects appeal”, in Romania…. From the entry Romanian
  • But he might be the only Gen X-er who paired such ambitions with impressions of a disgraced forebear.2022 September 13, Matt Flegenheimer, “Is Ron DeSantis the Future of the Republican Party?”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry Gen X-er
  • He was sent to Hua-chou in disgrace.2016, David Hawkes, “Sad Memories”, in A Little Primer of Tu Fu, Revised edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70. From the entry Hua-chou
  • Cinnamongirl: I am in disgrace in my fellow maidens' eyes and I do beweep alone in my outcast state.2007, Cathy Hopkins, Starting Over, →ISBN. From the entry beweep
  • They’ve disgraced the name of my people.”2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), pages 310–311. From the entry Pashtun
  • It is a disgrace that anyone sleeps rough.1998 February 3, Jonathan Sayeed, “Rough Sleepers”, in House of Commons Hansard (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 305…. From the entry sleep rough
  • It's certainly no disgrace to have been ripped off by a pretty-faced hustler--who among us has not mistaken nubility for genius?1993 June 11, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Mean Tears”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry nubility
  • Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children.1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN…. From the entry scrawny
  • Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry incompetence
  • This “feminist chortling” (as she calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.2026 March 25, Zoe Williams, “‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate”…. From the entry bailiwick
  • Every blunder added weight to defense depictions of the CID as a bunch of Keystone Kops bunglers, a disgrace to serious criminal investigation.2003, Colin Evans, A Question of Evidence, page 162. From the entry Keystone Cop
  • The Fairways Trawler, however, reflects the same "shippiness" in her appearance and sports a wheelhouse which would not disgrace a real trawler.1978, Country Life, volume 164, page 312. From the entry shippiness
  • Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn.1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI. From the entry unpitied
  • That was a big disgrace for an educated man like him, so Hou grabbed onto the iron bars of the doghole, determined not to be put in there.2020, Liao Yiwu, Bullets and Opium, page 211. From the entry doghole
  • One day I had to stay behind after my boxing class, and I'd just been told that I was a ‘disgrace to the traditions of the boxing hall’.2004, Rebecca Mahon, Excel HSC English Study Guide: Billy Elliot, page 110. From the entry stay behind
  • Ellison, 28, has agreed to help federal prosecutors build their case against Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX and a co-founder of Alameda Research, the trading firm that Ms.2022 December 23, Matthew Goldstein, Benjamin Weiser, “Alameda Executive Says She Is ‘Truly Sorry’ for Her Role in FTX Collapse”, in The…. From the entry disgraced
  • The left was divided between the ALP Club, slowly being white-anted by supporters of the DLP, and a Labour or Socialist Club which disgraced the labour movement by its extremism.2002, Alan Barcan, Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University, page 324. From the entry white-ant

Meaning of disgrace

  1. noun The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
  2. noun The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.
  3. noun Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.

Full definition of disgrace

Questions about disgrace in a sentence

How do you use disgrace in a sentence?
Disgrace is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Now she lives in disgrace.”
What is a short sentence with disgrace?
“Now she lives in disgrace.”
What does disgrace mean?
Disgrace means the condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disgrace (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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