From Middle French disgracier.

• (British) IPA: /dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/, /dɪzˈɡɹeɪs/
• (America) IPA: /dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/

disgrace

1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene vi], page 143 ↗:

     I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?

2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.

   Synonyms: dishonor, ignominy

   Now she lives in disgrace.

3. (countable) Something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.

   His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.

   • 1853, Solomon Northup, chapter XIII, in [David Wilson], editor, Twelve Years a Slave. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, →OCLC ↗, page 179 ↗:

     Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.

4. (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Ambition. XXXVI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC ↗, page 221 ↗:

     As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.

• misgrace (far less common)

• disgraceful
• disgraceless

• French: honte, disgrâce, ignominie
• German: Ungnade, Schande
• Italian: vergogna
• Portuguese: desgraça
• Russian: позо́р
• Spanish: desgracia

• German: Schande, Schmach
• Italian: infamia, ignominia
• Russian: позо́р

• German: Schande, Schmach, Blamage, Peinlichkeit
• Spanish: baldón

disgrace (disgraces, present participle disgracing; simple past and past participle disgraced)

1. (transitive) To put someone out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

• Italian: disonorare
• Russian: позо́рить
• Spanish: deshonrar