Synonyms 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"

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, 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

   Antonyms:
   honourable, moral, honorable

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   honorable, moral, honourable

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1. shamefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   disgraceful, scandalous, dishonorable, disreputable, infamous, outrageous, ignominious, opprobrious, base, vile, villanous, nefarious, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark

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1. shamefuladjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "shameful":

   disgraceful, scandalous, outrageous, embarrassing, disgrace, shame, ashamed, shameless, unworthy, despicable, undignified, infamous, humiliating, ignominious, ignoble, reprehensible, appalling

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1. Gavin Newsom:

   While the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ended a shameful injustice against LGBTQ Americans serving in our armed forces, its legacy continues to burden the women and men unfairly ousted under the discriminatory policy.

2. Bennie Thompson:

   This Facebook group is beyond sexist and racist -- This Facebook group is truly abhorrent and shameful, and there is no excuse for this depraved behavior, the agents found to be responsible for these vile comments should no longer have the privilege of representing the United States of America in uniform.

3. Janet Bodnar:

   Set up a savings account earmarked for your vacation and make regular, automatic contributions, you want to make sure funds are held in an FDIC-insured institution, and compare interest rates to what you’d get at a bank — though interest rates at banks are so low right now it’s almost shameful.

4. Century Wilberforce Initiative Obama:

   When I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which a person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution -- that’s shameful, that’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion.

5. Ann Furedi:

   We can no longer stand back and watch this shameful political gameplay with women's health at a time of national crisis, we will no longer be complicit in government policy of booking bleeding, vomiting women on interminable ferry journeys, putting their health at serious risk.