meaning of shameful
1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.
2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.
3. 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"
Related Words
shameful | shamefully | shamefulness |