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That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

eciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to. It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun. South. Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister. I. Taylor.

The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.

hatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." Dryden. To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." J…

delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.] A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. Byron.

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

panish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.

y, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach. New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak. After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many…

mpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God. Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought. Keble. Holy Alliance (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, bu…

ing from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive. Is this proceeding just and honorable Shak.

In what state, condition, or plight. How, and with what reproach, shall I return Dryden.

A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.

A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach. Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame Chaucer.