as in notorious
not respectable
shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors
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Recent Examples of shameful
One newspaper here calling the summit, sickening, shameful, and, in the end, useless.
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ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025
This will be a shameful insult to everyone.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
The film deals with a range of ideas within the Chinese-American community regarding mental health, from the son’s Chinese therapist to Irene’s friend who believes he should be treated with herbs and chanting to others in the community who just see his schizophrenia as shameful.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
There is one way a sheriff can do a perp walk outside the federal courthouse in a non-shameful way.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
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ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025
This will be a shameful insult to everyone.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
The film deals with a range of ideas within the Chinese-American community regarding mental health, from the son’s Chinese therapist to Irene’s friend who believes he should be treated with herbs and chanting to others in the community who just see his schizophrenia as shameful.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
There is one way a sheriff can do a perp walk outside the federal courthouse in a non-shameful way.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameful
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However, just as wedding bells chime, chaos ensues when the notorious Ghost Bandits raid his bank.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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While crawfish frogs might be notorious for their rap sheets full of B&Es, they are also said to have a distinct sound when calling, almost like the sound of someone snoring.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
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Rival organizations to the Missouri group include the infamous biker group Hell’s Angels, along with the Outlaws, El forastero, Galloping Goose, Sons of Silence and Bandidos biker groups.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Rasheed was mostly raised by a single mother who struggled financially, in San Diego’s Skyline neighborhood, infamous for being a hotbed of gang activity.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Sep. 2025
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Maybe not something drastic like a world war, slavery or the Holocaust, but there’s always shady s–t going on.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2025
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Meursault also starts hanging out with his shady and brutish French neighbor, Raymond (Pierre Lottin), whose abusive relationship with an Algerian girl (Hajar Bouzaouit) eventually leads to the murder.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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Ladapo said the decision was not reached according to the data, but instead on his view that vaccine mandates are immoral and outside the scope of the government’s authority.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
7 Sep. 2025
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Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Office of the Inspector General launched a criminal investigation and determined the shots had been fired from where two FBI agents and an Oregon State Police officer had been standing.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Sep. 2025
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Abrego was brought back in June to face criminal charges of transporting migrants living in the United States illegally.—
Ted Hesson,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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For example, the 1988 Supreme Court decision in favor of Larry Flynt reaffirmed the freedom of expression for the misogynistic, disgraceful pornographer, no matter how offensive his work was.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
26 Aug. 2025
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Rather than attacking each other, slate candidates echoed similar messaging about Cuomo’s disgraceful record.—
Theo Oshiro,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Shameful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameful. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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