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Example sentences for "disgracefully"

Lexicographically close words:
disgorges; disgorging; disgrace; disgraced; disgraceful; disgraces; disgracing; disgracious; disgruntled; disguise
  1. I don't care for brand-new babies, though; they always look so disgracefully sun-burned.

  2. Bowling Brook had walked in, and Hamburg had been disgracefully beaten.

  3. It was but too apparent that they had been insultingly, shamefully, disgracefully deceived.

  4. Here, as he was engaged in reducing some of the tribes by force, and bringing over others by good words, a large army of barbarians fell upon him, so that there was danger of being disgracefully forced out again.

  5. It was our fate then, our fate, falling into the hands of an enemy, to leave life disgracefully and miserably.

  6. An evil return, seeing, forsooth, thou hast disgracefully set out from home.

  7. The advice was disgracefully spurned; yet neither the legislature nor the executive has ever dared to deny that drunkenness is a civil offence.

  8. In domestic Politics I care most for the social and moral questions, which are painful, pressing, and disgracefully delayed.

  9. She seemed to be enjoying herself immensely; indeed, it was disgracefully plain that she was having a great deal of fun.

  10. O this pleasant and cunning scoffer of a writer, who thus disgracefully sends Isagoras to the Carians, as it were to the ravens.

  11. When she has much bepraised me, her door is shut on him who is praised; talented though I be, I disgracefully wander up and down.

  12. Thanks are justly due for things obtained without purchase; there are no thanks for an intercourse disgracefully bartered.

  13. A female disgracefully set the wild Lapithæ and the two-formed race in arms, when the wine circulated.

  14. Often these carpet-knights were disgracefully beaten, though infamy in the provinces sometimes became fame at Rome, and then they resorted to shameful trickery repeated again and again.

  15. They agreed to evacuate the country; but Carbo treacherously attacked them, and was disgracefully beaten at a place called Noreia.

  16. Suddenly there was an outburst of shouts and cheers, for the brig and corvette reappeared at the entrance of the passage, with the Mexican colours proudly flying on the two ships over the Texan flag, which was disgracefully reversed.

  17. You are surrounded: within a month your army will be disgracefully expelled from our territory.

  18. We have been disgracefully taken in," says Julia, warmly.

  19. Julia, in spite of the most heroic efforts to the contrary, is openly and disgracefully sleepy.

  20. That to the right is the old cemetery, now closed, and when I was there, in a disgracefully neglected state: a mere jungle of grass infested with snakes.

  21. A certain percentage of ivory collected by the Fans is from live elephants, but I am bound to admit that their method of hunting elephants is disgracefully unsportsmanlike.

  22. You admit that she borrows disgracefully and never returns things.

  23. Is disgracefully defeated by Montcalm (though commanding the largest force ever assembled in America).

  24. Everything in this country is in a disgracefully backward state!

  25. I suppose I got into trouble, as much as any boy of sixteen, with the so-called regular, and those disgracefully irregular, verbs the old Greeks tolerated.

  26. He is in a disgracefully bad temper; there is nothing else the matter with him as far as I can see.

  27. He was a very delicate child," Nina answered, "and has always been quite disgracefully spoilt.

  28. I remember--you behaved disgracefully to me.

  29. A member of this club disgracefully drunk in the afternoon will certainly hear from the governing board unless he keeps out of sight until he's sane again.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disgracefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.