| This shocking and disgraceful practice should not be tolerated in any society. |
| Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice? |
| After that disgraceful performance the players should have been subjected to a torrent of jeers and whistles. |
| No great changes were undertaken, but glasnost did its job in exposing disgraceful and often remediable situations. |
| Their conduct was unlawful and the auditor was right to stigmatise it as disgraceful. |
| Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess. |
