shameful

[US]/'ʃeɪmfʊl/
[UK]/'ʃemfl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. deserving of blame; disgraceful; disgraceful.

Phrases & Collocations

shameful act

shameful behavior

shameful mistake

Example Sentences

It is very shameful of him to show off.

We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.

their shameful silence demonstrates their ineptitude.

a shameful page in British imperial history.

Better a glorious death than a shameful life.

Of course,we are aware of their shameful actions.

he hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence.

My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.

He feels it very shameful to sponge on his parents after he’s grown up.

When his employers discovered his shameful past, they hounded him out of the company.

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