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, 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, 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. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

2. 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.

3. Shelley Winters:

   I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

4. Marie Antoinette:

   I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

5. 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.