as in notorious
not respectable
shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors
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Recent Examples of shameful
Losing the first two home series of the season should qualify as shameful.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2025
Boulet grew up near Lake Tahoe in the 1990s and early aughts, when steroid use had a mostly shameful association with athletes like Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, whose record-breaking feats came with an asterisk.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The vilification of Chinese immigrants led to one of the most shameful laws in American history: the Chinese Exclusion Act.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2025
The Lakers trailed by as many as 27 points, their performance at Crypto.com Arena so shameful that even one of the worst coaches in franchise history felt emboldened enough to criticize their current sideline leader.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2025
Boulet grew up near Lake Tahoe in the 1990s and early aughts, when steroid use had a mostly shameful association with athletes like Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, whose record-breaking feats came with an asterisk.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The vilification of Chinese immigrants led to one of the most shameful laws in American history: the Chinese Exclusion Act.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2025
The Lakers trailed by as many as 27 points, their performance at Crypto.com Arena so shameful that even one of the worst coaches in franchise history felt emboldened enough to criticize their current sideline leader.
—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameful
Adjective
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But in a twist of fate, his estranged grandfather, the notorious outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), breaks him out of jail, and the two flee to Mexico.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
3 May 2025
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In a twist of fate, his estranged grandfather, the notorious outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), breaks him out of jail and takes him on the run toward Mexico.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Returning to Churchill after his infamous two-year-plus-one-year Churchill ban dating from Medina Spirit’s 2021 betamethasone disqualification, Baffert was buoyant about the work.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Suggestions that Marseille’s players had refused to train inevitably resurrected memories of the infamous training-ground strike at the South African resort of Knysna that contributed to the France national team’s spectacular derailment at the 2010 World Cup.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Good for a cool, shady location, the blooms are pale blue with purple shading nodding bells, 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter, and grows up to 15 feet tall.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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After the events of the April 24 episode aired, Brunette escalated the drama with a shady Instagram Reel.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Even children and adolescents express more willingness to shun and punish moral transgressors than people who do something personally obnoxious or offensive but not immoral.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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Regardless of what transpired between the two cast members, on or off screen, Aspen was unfairly portrayed as an immoral character.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Finally, get to grips with the fact that this dataset only includes passwords that have become publicly available in criminal forums online.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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Agents were driving down Anderson Road in unmarked cars when Perez-Rodriguez allegedly walked into the roadway holding a machete, according to a criminal complaint.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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For America, its disgraceful 20-year intervention in Vietnam had come to a disgraceful end.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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One of my opponents has made several disgraceful statements about things occurring over the last 24 years.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Shameful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameful. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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