Antonyms for disgraceful
dɪsˈgreɪs fəldis·grace·ful

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1. disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shockingadjective

   giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

   "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

   Antonyms:
   moral, honourable, honorable

   Synonyms:
   lurid, opprobrious, inglorious, shameful, shocking, scandalous, black, ignominious

2. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shamefuladjective

   (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

   "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

   Antonyms:
   honorable, honourable, moral

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, scurrilous, grim, calamitous, abusive, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, scandalous, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, shocking, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

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1. disgracefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   ignominious, shameful, dishonorable, discreditable, opprobrious, scandalous, disreputable, infamous

How to use disgraceful in a sentence?

1. Outgoing Democratic Virginia Gov.Terry McAuliffe:

   Listen, if this guy got in my space, you wan na get in my space, I’ve always said Chris, you punch me, I ’m going to punch back twice as hard. And it would n’t be hard to do it, but you know, this guy thinks he could intimidate everybody.It’s disgraceful. It’s embarrassing.

2. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie:

   Heading to Washington to vote on pandemic legislation. Because of one Member of Congress refusing to allow emergency action entire Congress must be called back to vote in Republican House. Risk of infection and risk of legislation being delayed. Disgraceful. Irresponsible.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   I know what people tell me -- that's anecdotal -- and we always say the plural of anecdote is not data necessarily, but it is a trend and what I'm hearing, but it wasn't just the attack. It was the Republican reaction to it, which was disgraceful. And that I think really the attack is horrible.

4. Doug Underwood:

   I think it’s disgraceful.

5. Timothy Sandefur:

   It’s a shameful abuse of authority and a form of bullying by school officials who are the employees of Callie and Debra, for the school board to turn around and sue them for trying to be engaged citizens concerned about what’s going on in public schools their tax dollars pay for – it’s disgraceful and the school board should be ashamed of its behavior.

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