disgrace
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NHS staff accessing the medical records of the Nottingham attacks victims and possible breaches over a man killed by a tiger is a "disgrace", the health secretary has said.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Graham believes their activities will ruin the program and disgrace the memory of its founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
As a consequence, Lyalin was ordered to return to Moscow in disgrace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
President Isaac Herzog also condemned the attack in Qusra, while Israel's foreign ministry called the violence "a disgrace".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The half-hour series stars Glen Powell as Russ Holliday, a former star college quarterback for a big-name team who disgraces himself during the Rose Bowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Officers aren’t allowed to conduct themselves in a way that personally disgraces them or dishonors the military profession, according to military law cited by the newspaper.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
The Monday column by Dylan Hernández, ostensibly about Kershaw making the All-Star team, disgraces the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
What’s disappointing is the degree to which its exercise of muscle exposes and disgraces others.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
But they had sent her back to her own mother and father, a mysterious act hinting at disgraces not told me.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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In reaching out to disgraced or out-of-fashion actors, the company is getting notable names for their bargain-basement productions.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
The disgraced music and alcohol mogul has been hospitalized after suffering a head injury, The Times has learned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Rikers, which sits on the East River between the Bronx and Queens boroughs, primarily holds people who are awaiting trial in New York, as was the case for disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” was an unpersuasive defense of one of New York’s several disgraced ex-governors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was his family who had been disgraced.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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Jurors accepted prosecutors' argument that Webster had "spearheaded" an attack on police lines and that he was responsible for "disgracing a democracy that he once fought honourably to protect and serve".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
"The disgracing of a dead body and setting it on fire are strictly forbidden in Islam," the court ruled.
From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2022
“You are disgracing this city, you are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country,” she added.
From Fox News ● May 30, 2020
“You are disgracing our city,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told protesters.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2020
“You’re so experienced, and you know about the circus—about the animals—and...you could help me to—to get through it without crying and disgracing my father.”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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