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n. - Unworthiness meriting public shame and dishonor.

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Usage examples (14)
  • This is surely ugliness, utter disgracefulness, unredeemed evil.
  • Palin, in all her sashaying disgracefulness, is not McCain's creation; but she is his responsibility.
  • When someone with the disgracefulness of Hillary is leading the polls, it says everything about the rest.
  • Of course, this showed that he felt the disgracefulness of his behaviour; he was not utterly lost to shame.
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