shameful
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈʃeɪmfəl/
- The politician's dishonesty was truly shameful, causing outrage among the voters.
- consider shameful
- most shameful
- a shameful history
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Watch on YouTubeI rarely hear people say dirty, wrong, bad, shameful, nasty, gross.
- I rarely hear people say dirty, wrong, bad, shameful, nasty, gross.
- To expel all foreigners from China and end the shameful concessions made to them.
- I I doubt it it it that would be a shameful waste of resources, it seems.
- Why do people do dumb, bad, shameful things?
- What the United States government did was shameful and I am sorry.
- And Syria is actually a shameful example of failure by the United Nations.
- When we're not talking about this because it's shameful.
- And that's among among the reasons that is so shameful.
- And that to me was shameful.
- So I just felt pretty pathetic at the time, which is obviously a very shameful feeling.
- Riddle me shameful or Riddle me proud.
- Like this thing that you've carried around and that experience, that shameful centre that's there.
- I've truly the things that I thought, no, that's too shameful.
- And you, you know, you, you are a shameful creature.
Examples
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Will the Prime Minister scrap this shameful legislation?
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Prime Minister, this is a shameful state of affairs.
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What the United States government did was shameful and I am sorry.
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It's shameful... to be this age and still not know yourself.
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The most shameful thing of all was thinking you could be anything more than nothing.
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But whatever I had seen or done, it had been a shameful act.
Fiction book (1992) -
We want something, but we either feel guilty, shameful, embarrassed, or uncomfortable to ask for it.
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It was secret, it was shameful, it caused a lot of guilt.
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We are forced to hide our supreme accomplishment as if it were a shameful crime.
Fiction book (1990) -
And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
Synonyms
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4.5
Making someone feel embarrassed or ashamed in front of other people
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5.7
Very bad in a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
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5.5
Causing someone to feel ashamed and less respected
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3.0
Very bad or shocking behaviour that makes people lose respect
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7.9
Morally wrong and deserving strong criticism
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5.0
Causing shock or strong disapproval by offending people's ideas of right and wrong
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7.8
Very unpleasant and morally wrong to most people
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6.8
Very bad and unacceptable, deserving strong criticism
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7.7
Causing strong dislike or disgust because people see it as morally wrong
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6.0
Not honest or fair and causing shame
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9.0
Causing public shame and a loss of respect
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7.5
Causing shame and loss of respect
Antonyms
How Shameful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shameful comes from the simple idea 'full of shame': shame means 'embarrassment' or 'disgrace', and the ending -ful means 'full of'. So, something shameful makes people feel embarrassed or shows behaviour that is wrong.