| 单词 | disgracefully |
| 释义 | disgracefully (once / 10305 pages) adv Something that's done disgracefully is shameful or unpleasant. You might feel like you've been treated disgracefully by a bus driver who kicks you off the bus for talking on your cell phone. When someone acts disgracefully, they have reason to be embarrassed or ashamed of their behavior. If a teenager torments his younger cousins, his dad may scold him for behaving disgracefully. You might accuse a hotel manager of treating you disgracefully if he refuses to refund your money after a long night of listening to a loud party in the room next to yours. Disgracefully has an Italian root word, disgraziare, which means "misfortune or deformity." WORD FAMILYdisgraceful: disgracefulest, disgracefully, disgracefulness+/disgrace: disgraced, disgraceful, disgraces, disgracing/grace: disgrace, graced, graceful, graceless, graces, gracing, gracious/graceful: gracefuler, gracefulest, gracefully, gracefulness, ungraceful/gracefulness: gracefulnesses/graceless: gracelessly, gracelessness/gracelessness: gracelessnesses/gracious: graciousest, graciously, graciousness, ungracious/graciousness: graciousnesses/ungraceful: ungracefully, ungracefulness/ungracious: ungraciously, ungraciousness USAGE EXAMPLESBy disgracefully refusing to rule out calling this a rigged election he gave up a fight he had by then lost. The Guardian(Oct 21, 2016) Now, disgracefully, the United States seems to have contracted a form of this potentially lethal virus. Slate(Sep 29, 2016) Astonishingly — and disgracefully — nearly 1 in 6 men ages 18 to 34 are in jail or out of work. Washington Post(Sep 23, 2016) adv in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree his grades were disgracefully low Syn discreditably, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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