2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shameful \Shame"ful\, a.
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}, adv -- {Shame"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
shameful
adj 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}]
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