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disgraced adjective [ dɪsˈɡreɪst ]

• having fallen from favour or a position of power or honour; discredited.
• "the disgraced city financier"

disgrace verb

• bring shame or discredit on.
• "you have disgraced the family name"
Similar: bring shame on, shame, dishonour, discredit, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, reflect badly on, smirch, besmear, spot,
Opposite: honour, do credit to,
Origin: mid 16th century (as a verb): via French from Italian disgrazia (noun), disgraziare (verb), from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin gratia ‘grace’.


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