"No, thank you," he said, with indescribable embarrassment, as if not smoking cigars was a social disgrace.

I've never been rich, I'm not very pretty, I'm a social disgrace.

A scold- ing, a social disgrace: such things are locks.

In the Japanese context, the social disgrace implied in such an attack is of itself significant punishment.

All of their old friends deserted them, and they lived for years in social disgrace.

Every man had a right to refuse a duel, though he would suffer the consequence of social disgrace.

A flapper rescues her less worldly-wise sister from social disgrace.

He particularly interested in the public humiliations and social disgrace that happens to people when negative labels are applied to them.

Since re- turning to the island, though, his own social disgrace had ceased to trouble him.

Some states, such as California, extend the prejudice to "hatred, ridicule, or social disgrace in the community."