| They said they were relying on God, but in fact they were acting at their own discretion, thereby disgracing God. |
| I'd advise that, if we don't have the capacity to do it, we should forget about it instead of disgracing ourselves. |
| He enumerated the three degrees of filial piety: honouring father and mother, not disgracing them, and being able to support them. |
| Now a party-finance scandal in Germany, where politics was generally considered fairly clean, is disgracing the once-mighty. |
| If secrecy is self-defeating, disgracing those it touches, the novel penetrates its smoke-filled corridors. |
| All this to keep from crying, and disgracing his new pants by acting like a girl. |