DISGRACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disgraced mean? 

• DISGRACED (adjective)
  The adjective DISGRACED has 1 sense:

1. suffering shame

  Familiarity information: DISGRACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGRACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering shame

Synonyms:

discredited; disgraced; dishonored; shamed

Similar:

ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)

 Context examples 

He deserves to be publicly disgraced.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But, save her from this disgrace, and she shall never be disgraced by us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is of my own free will. You have disgraced me so that I am ashamed to meet my friends. They are all talking about me, I know.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Harriet is disgraced by any comparison.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Do you mean you are glad I was disgraced before the whole school?" cried Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended, said he, by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her actions all innocence, and the misconduct of another the true source of her debasement, is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine's life, and her fortitude under it what particularly dignifies her character.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Jo disgraced herself by nearly fainting away, and had to be doctored by Laurie in the china closet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You need not call me Little, you need not call me by the name I have disgraced; but oh, listen to my agony, and have mercy on me so far as to write me some word of uncle, never, never to be seen in this world by my eyes again!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)