shameful
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The team's shameful behavior led to their disqualification from the tournament.
Definition
- Adjective:
- Causing or deserving shame; disgraceful: Describes actions, behavior, or situations that are morally wrong, dishonorable, or offensive, and thus bring about feelings of shame or disgrace.
- Extremely bad or shocking: Used to emphasize the severe, offensive, or scandalous nature of something.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The company's shameful treatment of its workers led to a public outcry.
- It is shameful that such poverty still exists in a wealthy nation.
- He was forced to make a shameful apology for his lies.
Advanced Usage
- "shameful secret": A secret that one is deeply ashamed of.
- She carried the shameful secret for decades.
- "shameful neglect": A severe and disgraceful failure to care for something or someone properly.
- The building's condition is a result of years of shameful neglect.
Variants and Related Words
- Shame (n/v): The painful feeling or the cause of such a feeling; to cause someone to feel shame.
- Shamefully (adv): In a shameful manner.
- The funds were shamefully misused.
- Shameless (adj): Feeling or showing no shame; brazen.
- His shameless boasting annoyed everyone.
Synonyms
- Disgraceful: Deserving public disapproval and loss of respect.
- Ignominious: Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
- Scandalous: Causing general public outrage by a perceived offense against morality or law.
- Opprobrious: Expressing scorn or criticism; disgraceful.
Antonyms
- Honorable: Deserving honor and respect.
- Commendable: Deserving praise.
- Laudable: Deserving praise and commendation.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- A crying shame: A situation that is very unfortunate and should be a cause for shame or regret.
- It's a crying shame that such a historic building was demolished.
- Shame on you/him/her/them: An expression used to convey that someone should feel ashamed of their actions.
- Shame on you for spreading those rumors.
The team's shameful behavior led to their disqualification from the tournament.
Adjective
- 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
- (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