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"disgraceful" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often shameful (8 letters).
Definitions
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Word origin
From disgrace + -ful.
Used in a sentence
“Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.”
“Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;”
“From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Shocking conduct”11 letters
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