From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shameful \Shame"ful\, adjective
1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.
His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. --Arbuthnot.
2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight. --Spenser.
Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming; degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous. -- {Shame"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Shame"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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
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