disgracefulness

Example Sentences

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Not that Mr. Delrahim’s behavior is comparable in disgracefulness to these episodes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 13, 2018

He was allus a mons’ous proud chile, and when de Cun’l broke loose an’ went on one o’ his t’ars, it mos’ ’stroyed dat boy wid de disgracefulness.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

What disgracefulness had penetrated through him, through the son the neighbourhood thought so much of, into her very home?

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth

The objections that have been made to the Datchery-Helena theory turn mainly on the supposed disgracefulness of Dickens deceiving his readers as he did, and working out a p. 171melodramatic idea. 

From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson

Of course, this showed that he felt the disgracefulness of his behaviour; he was not utterly lost to shame.

From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Kipling, Rudyard