Shameful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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