Example sentences for: disgraceful

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

  • 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.

  • That's disgraceful.

  • Glenn Close plays Camille Orcutt, Cookie's histrionic niece and the director of the church theatricals (currently Oscar Wilde's Salome ), whose hysterical obsession with hiding the "disgraceful" truth throws the town into an uproar.

  • In an editorial, the Daily Telegraph of London condemned as "disgraceful" the treatment meted out by the British police to Wei Jingsheng, China's leading democratic dissident and a former nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • From this, McCain infers that Bush favors "disgraceful" fund-raising practices.


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