shameful

Use Shameful in a sentence

adjective

causing shame: shameful behavior.

disgraceful or scandalous: shameful treatment.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English; Old English scamful. See shame, -ful

Related forms

shame·ful·ly, adverb

shame·ful·ness, noun

Can be confused: shameful, shameless.

Synonyms
1. mortifying, humiliating. 2. dishonorable, ignominious, vile, base, low.

Antonyms
2. honorable.

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shameful (ˈʃeɪmfʊl)

—*adj*
	causing or deserving shame; scandalous

'shamefully

—*adv*

'shamefulness

—n

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Example sentences

My point is that even the shameful truth doesn't necessarily sink you.

Then it oversaw the shameful response to the flooding.

It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no

more vicious.

State is not ignoring shameful ranking in level of health care.

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Matching Quote

"We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men."

-Charles Baudelaire