Disgrace vs Disguise - What's the difference?
disgrace | disguise |
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
* Shakespeare
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
* Francis Bacon
To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
* Macaulay
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
* Spectator
As nouns the difference between disgrace and disguise
is that disgrace is disgrace while disguise is attire (eg clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.As a verb disguise is
to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.disgrace
English
(wikipedia disgrace)Noun
(en noun)- Macduff lives in disgrace .
- the interchange continually of favours and disgraces
Verb
External links
* *disguise
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
- ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Synonyms
* camouflage * guise * mask * pretenseVerb
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
