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disgraceful

 adjective
     
dis‧grace‧ful
bad, embarrassing, or unacceptable:
It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money.
absolutely/utterly etc disgraceful
Their behaviour was absolutely disgraceful.
It is disgraceful that anyone should have to live in such conditions.
—disgracefully adverb
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