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shameful
[ sheym-fuhl ]
adjective
- causing shame:
shameful behavior.
Synonyms: humiliating
- disgraceful or scandalous:
shameful treatment.
Synonyms: low, base, vile, ignominious, dishonorable
Antonyms: honorable
shameful
/ ˈʃeɪmfʊl /
adjective
- causing or deserving shame; scandalous
Derived Forms
- ˈshamefully, adverb
- ˈshamefulness, noun
Other Words From
- shameful·ly adverb
- shameful·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Good for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet Fashion.
This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.
What other shameful secrets might a search of his Internet history turn up unrelated to his months swooning over ISIS?
The complete and utter lack of compassion or a clue exhibited by these people is shameful in the extreme.
This country has a long, violent and shameful history of our system being set up to value white people over people of color.
And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.
It would be perfectly shameful if some San Francisco girl snapped him up—and you know what they are.
Pale as a ghost, her fingers intertwined in a convulsive grip, she knelt by her cousin's bed and told her shameful story.
Her descendants have been exempted from the taille (poll tax)—a mean and shameful recompense!
Is there any violent and shameful passion in existence to which we cannot apply the same language?
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