| a. | 1. | Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. |
| 2. | Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; |
| Adj. | 1. | shameful - (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" |
| 2. | shameful - 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" |
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