Disgracer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person whose conduct brings dishonor or shame upon a family, group, cause or institution
2. Someone who causes others to lose respect or esteem through disgraceful behavior
3. One who bears the blame for bringing discredit and humiliation onto those associated with them

Etymology: "Disgracer" is a plain formation: the noun "disgrace" with the agent suffix "-er," meaning one who performs the action. It follows the same pattern as "wronger" or "shamer," so the word adds nothing beyond what its parts already carry. "Disgrace" itself comes from the Italian "disgrazia," meaning misfortune, which took the prefix "dis-" (here meaning "away from" or "without") and the root "grazia," meaning favour or grace. The original sense was the loss of someone's favour, so a disgrace was literally a falling out of grace, and a disgracer is one who brings that loss about.

Synonyms: shamer, dishonorer, defamer