as in notorious
not respectable
shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors
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Recent Examples of shameful
This level of abuse of power is shameful, outrageous, and is not doing anything to keep our homeland safe.
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Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
Writing this just now felt both cathartic and shameful.
—Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Pope Francis branded Gaza crisis 'serious and shameful' Israel launched its siege of Gaza after militants affiliated with Hamas − which controls the territory on the border of Israel and Egypt − overran Israel’s borders on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostage.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Our society tends to destigmatize shameful things, and guilt is created around mental health.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for shameful
Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
Writing this just now felt both cathartic and shameful.
—Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Pope Francis branded Gaza crisis 'serious and shameful' Israel launched its siege of Gaza after militants affiliated with Hamas − which controls the territory on the border of Israel and Egypt − overran Israel’s borders on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostage.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Our society tends to destigmatize shameful things, and guilt is created around mental health.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameful
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This time around, opponents include immigration advocates who are worried about a lack of oversight at the facility, as well as the welfare of detainees being held in tents in Florida's notorious summer humidity and what forecasters predict will be another above-average hurricane season.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
1 July 2025
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Iran acknowledged on Sunday that an Israeli strike on Tehran’s notorious Evin prison last week killed dozens of people.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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Hargitay, 61, was just 3 and survived the infamous 1967 car crash that killed Mansfield, but has no memory of her famous mom.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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That’s what happened in Vermont, after an infamous Vermont Supreme Court decision in 1978.—
Betsy Z. Russell,
Idaho Statesman,
26 June 2025
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One of them is Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), a shady pharmaceuticals bigwig who wants to develop the world’s most effective heart medication using dinosaur blood samples.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
30 June 2025
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Old-school bedding impatiens will bloom continuously in a shady spot.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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Though the organization had a history of taking action against (supposedly) immoral ministers, Kunstler had no direct evidence to prove this was the case with Rev. Hall.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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His plan calls for demanding that messages not change more frequently than every four seconds, not include flashing lights and not include obscene, indecent or immoral content.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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This panel will examine mass incarceration through multiple lenses and how the criminal justice system serves as a point of crisis of public health, black wealth building, voter disenfranchisement, and family structure.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 July 2025
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The eight migrants, who DHS has alleged have serious criminal convictions, were the subject of a lawsuit that had halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a U.S. military base in Djibouti.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
5 July 2025
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This should go down as another disgraceful star in the Constellation of Dirty Presidential Pardons, which features Barack Obama's pardon of Chelsea Manning, Bill Clinton's pardon of his half-brother Roger Clinton, and of course Joe Biden's unconscionable pardon of his son Hunter.—
Christopher Hale,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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That’s been another disgraceful indignity visited upon the victims of terrorists: the support on American campuses for those behind attacks on innocents in Israel.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
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“Shameful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameful. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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