disgrace
/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?"
- "Now she lives in disgrace."
- "His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men."
- "Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more."
- ""You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan."
- "As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood."
Etymology
From Middle French disgracier.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: disgracier
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/
- British English: /dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/