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shameful

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shameful \Shame"ful\, a. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. --Arbuthnot. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful 2 giving offense

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ This is a shameful waste of our natural resources. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A shameful flock formed round the padre. ▪ Divorce is no longer so shameful and is popularly seen as a permissible solution to marital difficulties. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scamful "modest;" see shame (n.) + -ful . Meaning "disgraceful, causing shame" is from c.1300. Related: Shamefully ; shamefulness . Middle English shamely (adv.) "shamefully" for some reason has fallen from use. Old English scamlic (adj.) "shameful, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (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 ...

Usage examples of shameful.

The battle still raged with doubtful violence, and Macrinus might have obtained the victory, had he not betrayed his own cause by a shameful and precipitate flight.

I have only appeared at two theatres, and each time I have been compelled to submit to the scandalous, degrading examination, because everywhere I am thought to have too much the appearance of a girl, and I am admitted only after the shameful test has brought conviction.

Since there was nothing shameful in open lovemaking, Locusta and I were indulging in a bit of it when there was a sudden fearful crash of pottery and metal.

I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.

Russian past, with its shameful heritage of serfdom, or their refusal to acknowledge the achievements of contemporary Russian literature.

And I stood watching her, still and mute, Yet the evil seed in my soul found root, And the sad plant throve, and the sinful fruit Grew ripe in the shameful season.

He lost no seen opportunity, however shameful, to add to his fortune or to amuse himself with the human race, which he regarded with the unpitying contempt characteristic of every cold nature born or risen to success.

I will confess to this consuming carnality and at such a time - it was the untimeliness that made it shameful.

I fully understood what bootlegging even was, only that it was something shameful and criminal and suddenly connected to us.

Venetians as the first authors of the war against Constantinople, and considers only as a kuma epi kumati, the arrival and shameful offers of the royal exile.

Halting on the verge of the water, it furtively picks up crabs as if it were a trespasser, conscious of a shameful or wicked deed and fearful of detection.

English were deserted in the battle, from the cowardice or treachery of their three leaders, all of them men of Danish race, Frena, Frithegist, and Godwin, who gave the example of a shameful flight to the troops under their command.

This was how I spent those not quite innocent holidays in cathedral cities, making opportunities for myself which now seemed to me equally shameful.

Now these holidays appeared to me in a morbid light, and I felt secretive, shameful.

The lamest part of the whole shameful matter was the reason suggested by his enemies for his destruction of the law, to wit: that he did it to favor Christian, because Christian was his cousin!