Example sentences for: disgraceful

How can you use “disgraceful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of Richard Nixon's disgraceful anti-Semitic utterances, made public in recently revealed tapes, Stein can only meekly remark, "Apparently, Mr. Nixon said some things that I wish he had not said."

  • The Zimbabwe Standard reported what it called "one of the most disgraceful incidents of unbecoming behaviour at the Parliament of Zimbabwe": A female member of Parliament was verbally and almost physically attacked--"nearly beaten up"--by a fellow legislator in the Members' Bar last week.

  • ... [A]s Judges shelter their knavery by precedents, so do scholars their ignorance by authority: and when they cannot reason, it is safer and less disgraceful to repeat that nonsense at second hand, which they would be ashamed to give originally as their own.

  • "It's going to be next to impossible to finger anyone in the Bush campaign for fomenting anti-McCain sentiment," lamented Newsweek . Vietnam veterans in the Senate called the trauma rumors "disgraceful."

  • Joseph Lieberman of President Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky scandal as "immoral and disgraceful."


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