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UK
/ʃˈeɪmfəl/
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[ US /ˈʃeɪmfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃeɪmfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
an ignominious retreat
inglorious defeat
an opprobrious monument to human greed
Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
a shameful display of cowardice -
giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt
scandalous behavior
the most shocking book of its time
How To Use shameful In A Sentence
- Our imperial past is now regarded rather shamefully. Times, Sunday Times
- He hesitates, looking particularly grave, and finally brings himself to utter the shameful words.
- I would venture the opinion that the TRC was a logical conclusion to our atrocious and shameful past. SPEECH BY ADV DE LANGE ANC MP DURING THE PRESIDENT'S TABLING OF RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO THE TRC
- It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
- The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
- Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: For President Bushmaster - a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match \'em bam-for-BAM!) - to suggest it was "disgusting" is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.' Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
- The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
- What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.
- The man Christ's voluntary and most innocent, most shameful, and most cruel death on the Cross was the deletion and purgation of, and the satisfaction for, all the carnal desires of human nature.