DISGRACEFULNESS Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

disgracefulness

noun

as in pervertedness

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Noun

Another factor is the degradation of Russia’s refinery infrastructure, which has sustained considerable damage from Ukrainian attacks.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Oxford Economics found that 47% of technology leaders said customers are often the first to detect service degradation or outages.

— Rohan Joshi, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of degradation

Noun

The lucrative example paved the way for more than two decades of musical theater shamelessness.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
The world has gotten a glimpse of the fawning, skeezy shamelessness of his famous hangers-on, but not enough to criminally implicate them.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026

Definition of shamelessness

Noun

There will be controversy, grift and venality, supporters will get lost and lose themselves in a fog of legalese, accounting and abbreviations — VAR, SCR, LOL, FFS — there will be ugliness and misgivings and a lot of meh.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
The same amount of venality and virtue exists today as did back then, and so human nature just doesn’t change.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 July 2026

Definition of venality

Noun

Decades of fiscal profligacy, including the costs of an extended conflict with Japan in Korea, had drained the imperial treasury.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
His first-half profligacy, at odds with his attacking threat, exemplified that notion.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of profligacy

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Since this is a new form factor for Apple, the company designed a novel vapor chamber and heat dissipation system that includes routing a graphite pipe through the hinge to help spread heat throughout the chassis.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026
The years that followed were plagued by stagnation and dissipation of any peace process, regular wars with Hamas, and a heavily nationalist government in Israel.

— Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of dissipation

Noun

Johannesburg’s mayoral race reveals a city frustrated by years of corruption and crumbling infrastructure – and a country at a crossroad.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2026
Those interests include concerns about affordability, the Iran war and corruption.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

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