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shameful

adjective

1 shameful

used of conduct or character Deserving or bringing disgrace or shame:
— A shameful display of cowardice.

synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious.

Roget 945: vicious; sinful; sinning etc. v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; ... show more

Roget 874: disgraced etc. v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame etc. n.; in bad repute etc. ... show more

Polish: haniebny

2 shameful

Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation:
— The wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt.

synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shocking.

Polish: haniebny


Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, ashamed, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, chastening, cheap, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken ... show more.

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