Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
   Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
   unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
   {Dis*grace"ful*fy}, adv. -- {Dis*grace"ful*ness}, n.

         The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B.
                                                  Jonson.

Source : WordNet®

disgraceful
     adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
            reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked
            rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray;
            "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: {scandalous},
             {shameful}, {shocking}]
     2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
        disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
        records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
        Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
        opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display
        of cowardice" [syn: {black}, {ignominious}, {inglorious},
        {opprobrious}, {shameful}]