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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, shameful]
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, shameful, shocking]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 13th century 1. a. bringing shame ; disgraceful <the children's behavior was shameful> b. arousing the feeling of shame 2. archaic full of the feeling of shame ; ashamed • shamefully adverb • shamefulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 that causes or is worthy of shame. 2 disgraceful, scandalous. Derivatives: shamefully adv. shamefulness n. Etymology: OE sc(e)amful (as SHAME, -FUL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person's action or attitude as shameful, you think that it is so bad that the person ought to be ashamed. ...the most shameful episode in US naval history. ADJ [disapproval] • shamefully At times they have been shamefully neglected. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Disgraceful, scandalous, dishonorable, disreputable, infamous, outrageous, ignominious, opprobrious, base, vile, villanous, nefarious, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark. 2. Indecent, unbecoming, degrading, scandalous.

Moby Thesaurus

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