shameful

3 definitions found

shameful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
          [1913 Webster] -- Shame"ful*ly, adv. --
          Shame"ful*ness, n.
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shameful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, shameful]
      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,
         shameful, shocking]

shameful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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