disgraceful

• disgracefull (archaic)

disgrace +‎ -ful

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ], [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]

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disgraceful (comparative disgracefuller or more disgraceful, superlative disgracefullest or most disgraceful)

1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
   • 1668, Slingsby Bethel, The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell, page 9:

     Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.

   • 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:

     Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;

   • 1883, Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, editor, The poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, & Thomas Warton.:

     From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
   • 1854, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible, page 76:

     I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.

   • 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:

     To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.

• See also Thesaurus:despicable