Adjective

(en adjective)

Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.

(senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}

Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.