Example sentences for: disgraceful

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

  • 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.

  • According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , "The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales."

  • ... [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.

  • 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.

  • "It is disgraceful that we do not know whether gays and lesbians are represented in statistically correct proportions on the sportsfield."


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