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Scornful vs Disgraceful - What's the difference?

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Scornful is a related term of disgraceful.


As adjectives the difference between scornful and disgraceful

is that scornful is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous while disgraceful is bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

scornful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful . "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

    • disgraceful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * disgracefull (archaic)

    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.