Disgrace: alternatives and connections

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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Vexation; mortification.

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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

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To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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To make foul; to soil.

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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

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A bird.

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To spot; to stain; to blur.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to f…

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The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

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Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

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Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

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Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.

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To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

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Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

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Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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To attain; to get act; to hit.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,…

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To manage; to conduct; to treat.

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The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

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Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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