Shameful \Shame"ful\, a.
1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation;
disgraceful.
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His naval preparations were not more surprising than
his quick and shameful retreat. --Arbuthnot.
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2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a
shameful picture; a shameful sight. --Spenser.
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Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming;
degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shameful
adj 1: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his
blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic
islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat";
"inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human
greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black,
disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious]
2: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous,
shocking]
WordNet (r) 2.0
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "shameful":
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, ashamed, atrocious, awful,
bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, black, blamable,
blameworthy, brutal, chastening, cheap, conscience-smitten,
conscience-stricken, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, damnable,
dark, debasing, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable,
despicable, detestable, deviant, dire, discreditable, disgraceful,
disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dreadful, egregious,
embarrassing, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious,
flagrant, foul, full of remorse, fulsome, grievous, gross, gutter,
hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, humbling,
humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper,
inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous,
infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, mean, monstrous, mortifying,
nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing,
notorious, obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive,
opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiable, pitiful,
rank, regretful, regrettable, remorseful, repining, reprehensible,
reprobate, repulsive, rotten, rueful, sacrilegious, sad,
scandalous, schlock, scurvy, self-accusing, self-condemning,
self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating,
self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby, shady,
shamefaced, shamefast, shameless, shaming, shocking, shoddy,
sinful, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, unbecoming,
unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unhappy about,
unlawful, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrespectable, unrighteous,
unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one,
vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wistful, woeful, worst,
worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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