disrepute

Roget category 874

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#874. Disrepute

noun

disrepute, discredit — ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor — disapprobation etc. 932 — ingloriousness, derogation — abasement, debasement — abjectness etc. adj. — degradation, dedecoration^† — a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.
dishonor, disgrace — shame, humiliation — scandal, baseness, vileness^† — turpitude etc. (improbity) 940^† — infamy.
tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.
stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.
crying shame, burning shame — scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon — bend sinister, bar sinister — champain^†, point champain^† — byword of reproach — Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.] — sense of shame etc. 879.

verb

be inglorious etc. adj. — incur disgrace etc. n. — have a bad name, earn a bad name — put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck — disgrace oneself, expose oneself.
play second fiddle — lose caste — pale one's ineffectual fire — recede into the shade — fall from one's high estate — keep in the background etc. (modesty) 881 — be conscious of disgrace etc. (humility) 879 — look blue, look foolish, look like a fool — cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure — laugh on the wrong side of the mouth — make a sorry face, go away with a flea in.
one's ear, slink away.
cause shame etc. n. — shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor — throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon etc. n. — be a reproach etc. n.. to — derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint — discredit — degrade, debase, defile — beggar — expel etc. (punish) 972.
impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry — tread under foot, trample under foot — show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon — reprehend etc. 932.
bring low, put down, snub — take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two.
obscure.
eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of — throw into the shade, cast into the shade — overshadow — leave in the background, put in the background — push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint — put out, put out of countenance.
upset, throw off one's center — discompose, disconcert — put to the blush etc. (humble) 879.

adjective

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. n. — out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance — at a discount — under a cloud, under an eclipse — unable to show one's face — in the shade, in the background — out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world.
inglorious — nameless, renownless^† — obscure — unknown to fame — unnoticed, unnoted^†, unhonored, unglorified^†.
shameful — disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable — despicable — questionable — unbecoming, unworthy — derogatory — degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous^† — scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable — ribald, opprobrious — errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.
ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base etc. (dishonorable) 940.

adverb

to one's shame be it spoken.

interjection

fie!, shame!, for shame!, proh pudor! [Lat.], O tempora! ^†, O mores!, ough!, sic transit gloria mundi! [Lat.],

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