I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
absolute
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Next door's goings on were an absolute disgrace .
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After 13 years, it is an absolute disgrace that no input has been made to tackling unemployment.
national
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It is little short of a national disgrace that allocations are still being made using such a crude approach.
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The national disgrace is that we parents do nothing to stop this epidemic.
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In those circumstances, is not Treasury pressure to sell off the spare land on the site a national disgrace ?
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Our child care is a national disgrace .
■ VERB
bring
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All he had done was scream abuse at her, accusing her of bringing shame and disgrace on the family.
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If he'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Browne was caught using drugs, and was sent home from the private school in disgrace .
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Garton killed himself because he could not bear the disgrace of a public scandal.
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While the father was in jail, the whole family suffered his disgrace .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if they twist things still to my disgrace in both counts, what more is there I can do?
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And what we got to put up with is a disgrace .
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Conception and disgrace somehow eluded her.
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In the end, Gerald R.. Ford pardoned Nixon after he resigned the presidency in disgrace .
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It is a disgrace that Government Departments are not subjected to the same scrutiny and punishments.
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It is capital crime, and a black disgrace to the races of civilized mankind.
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Mentally ill people were thought to be a disgrace to the family.
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She says it's a disgrace .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a disgraced Senator
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Many say Lonetree has disgraced his people and his country.
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My grandmother thought I was disgracing myself, following Tim around like a love-sick puppy.
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She didn't tell anyone that she was pregnant for fear of disgracing her family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides, labor disgraced itself in the Great Depression.
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He disgraced himself, and he disgraced his badge...
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He would disgrace the family name and be destroyed into the bargain.
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I was wild with fear we would be disgraced.
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Napoleon, the greatest of all generals, dismissed and disgraced Admiral Bruix when he questioned an order to sail his fleet.
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She refuses to admit that she is the daughter for fear of disgracing her parents.
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The coffin had reached its resting-place and had landed, without disgracing itself, on the catafalque awaiting it.
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What became of Gary Glitter mimics when Glitter got disgraced?