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Antonyms for shameful
ˈʃeɪm fəlshame·ful

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  1. shameful

    Synonyms:
    disgraceful, degrading, scandalous, outrageous, dishonorable, indecent, unbecoming

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  1. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shamefuladjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    honourable, moral, honorable

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, dim, fatal, inglorious, scurrilous, grim, calamitous, abusive, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, scandalous, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, shocking, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

  2. disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shockingadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    honorable, moral, honourable

    Synonyms:
    lurid, opprobrious, inglorious, shocking, scandalous, disgraceful, black, ignominious

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  1. shamefuladjective

    Synonyms:
    indecent, immodest, obscene, scandalous, disgraceful, reproachful, ignominious, infamous, flagitious, disreputable, vile, opprobrious

How to use shameful in a sentence?

  1. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia:

    Why are you not disgusted with yourselves when you use such shameful words? Do you imagine that you can woo a well-born woman with such witticisms and have her be well disposed towards you? Be refined and respectable men and then we can get along.

  2. Governor Ricardo Rossello:

    I recognize the enormous challenge I have before me due to the recent controversies, but I firmly believe that we can restore trust and, after this painful and shameful process, achieve reconciliation.

  3. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull:

    It's a pretty shameful episode in Australian political history.

  4. George Santayana:

    Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  5. Jimmy St. Goddard:

    Killing these buffalo is shameful.

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