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Disgracefully

Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n.

The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully.
--B. Jonson.

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disgracefully

adv. In a disgraceful manner

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disgracefully

adv. in a dishonorably manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low" [syn: ingloriously, ignominiously, discreditably, shamefully, dishonorably, dishonourably]

Usage examples of "disgracefully".

I should have been shocked, if, at that moment, I could have caught a vision of myself a month later, ashore in the most cursed place on earth and having a disgracefully good time along with eight hundred of the lepers who were likewise having a good time.

From time to time he would run amok and abuse his power disgracefully, but in general he handled it well.

Howland was there, drunk as a skunk, disgracefully drunk, Morey remembered thinkin~ as he stared up at Howland from the floor.

They're a thoroughly tiresome lot in my experience, bad fieldmen and overstrung, and disgracefully unreliable when it comes down to doing the job.

But if worry is a shortener of life I must root out this ingrained ancestral habit, or I may drop off my perch at some disgracefully early age.