Significado de disgrace en inglés

disgrace

noun [ U ]

/dɪsˈɡreɪs/ us

/dɪsˈɡreɪs/

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embarrassment and the loss of other people's respect, or behaviour that causes this:

in disgrace They were sent home in disgrace.

bring disgrace on He brought disgrace on the whole team by falsifying the results.

be a disgrace

to be a very bad situation:

Three families living in one room - it's a disgrace!

be a disgrace (to someone/something)

to be so bad or unacceptable that you make people lose respect for the group or activity you are connected to:

You're a disgrace (to the family) - what a way to behave!

Fans like these are a disgrace to our country.

What he did was outrageous. He's a disgrace to the medical profession.

She was an absolute disgrace at the party, offending the hosts and attendees with her vile behaviour.

The way veterans are treated by the government is a disgrace.

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It's a disgrace that some war widows don't get a decent pension.
I think the way she's been treated is a downright disgrace.
She found the disgrace of losing her job very hard to deal with.
There is no disgrace in admitting that you cannot do something - it's always best to ask for help.
Andrew behaved so badly on the school trip that he was sent home in disgrace.

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disgrace

verb [ T ]

/dɪsˈɡreɪs/ us

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to make people stop respecting you or your family, team, etc. by doing something very bad:

You have disgraced us all with your behaviour.

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disgraced

(Definición de disgrace del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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disgrace

noun [ U ]

/dɪsˈɡreɪs/

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embarrassment and the loss of other people’s respect, or behavior that causes this:

He resigned in disgrace.

He’s a disgrace to his family.

disgraceful

adjective us

/dɪsˈɡreɪs·fəl/

The lies my opponent is telling about me are disgraceful.

(Definición de disgrace del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de disgrace

disgrace

He felt 'publicly disgraced' [447; 448; 449].

Del Cambridge English Corpus

I believe that an industry that acts in this way disgraces itself.

De Europarl Parallel Corpus - English

No decision, hot air; in the end we are disgracing ourselves.

De Europarl Parallel Corpus - English

I accept that both officers have been disgraced and humiliated, and so paid that extra price.

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If a man in such a case were brought up in a police court he would be disgraced almost for ever.

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He also found a so-called rest room that would have disgraced the oldest of our prisons.

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I am not now apportioning the blame, but that the country as a whole was disgraced is beyond question.

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You would have to have canvassing, speeches, meetings, the distribution of pamphlets and leaflets, and placards which would be decorating or disgracing the walls.

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Until very recently the conditions in the domestic departure and arrival area would have disgraced a cattle market.

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In fact, he was disgraced if he did not.

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Take the whole question of the caricatures which disgraced our hoardings.

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You disgraced their memory, you treated our soldiers as though they were criminals.

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Are we disgraced because we have them here?

Hansard archive

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They have been sentenced and disgraced and sent for long terms of imprisonment.

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He may be disgraced for life, or a new trial may be ordered in accordances with the rules of procedure.

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absolute disgrace

The organisers publicly declared that the state of the monuments was an absolute disgrace.

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complete disgrace

Is it not a complete disgrace that this delay has occurred in the way it has?

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national disgrace

But this again is the reaction of an old fogey, for whom an opera like this can only be a national disgrace.

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