as in notorious
not respectable
shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors
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Recent Examples of shameful
The 2021 withdrawal was unacceptably chaotic and bloody, the takeover by the Taliban shameful, but that war is now over.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 May 2025
For birth families, relinquishing a child was not only shameful but a badge of poverty.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
There will be a lot of shameful words written here about how embarrassingly inept your team are.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Reconciling with some more ugly, shameful guilty parts of a young woman’s coming of age was really exciting to me.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 May 2025
For birth families, relinquishing a child was not only shameful but a badge of poverty.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
There will be a lot of shameful words written here about how embarrassingly inept your team are.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Reconciling with some more ugly, shameful guilty parts of a young woman’s coming of age was really exciting to me.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameful
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He was taken to the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, before being transferred to a facility with better conditions in April.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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Torrez, though, was also linked by DNA to the notorious stabbing deaths of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and her friend 9-year-old Krystal Tobias in Zion on Mother’s Day in 2005.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Trending Stories On Wednesday morning, a forensic video expert told jurors that the infamous hotel surveillance video showing Combs slamming Ventura to the ground and kicking and dragging her in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in 2016 was not manually doctored.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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Some military commentators compared it to another infamous Sunday surprise—Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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Patti LuPone had a shady reaction to questions about Audra McDonald in a new interview.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
27 May 2025
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Simple Deluxe 9-foot Patio Umbrella and 50-pound Base Add a shady spot to your sunny patio space with this nine-foot umbrella that comes with a base that can be filled with up to 50 pounds of sand or water.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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Kudos to Bruce Springsteen for practicing his First Amendment rights to rail against the corrupt policies and immoral actions of the Trump administration.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
30 May 2025
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Independent jurors can blunt the force of immoral laws and arbitrary prosecutions by refusing to subject their neighbors to unjust laws or overtly cruel punishment.—
Mike Fox,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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Local business owners are complaining about threats and extortion from criminal groups in Morelos.—
Nathaniel Parish Flannery,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Following his release from prison, Kerik was a vocal critic of the criminal justice system and a staunch ally of Trump.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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What has changed, however, is the wild echo chamber within the modern media ecosystem, which, through clips shared millions of times on social platforms, transforms a marginal call into a ‘disgraceful error’ costing millions.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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But many environmental activists, even some who are fans of nuclear, believe running roughshod over Indigenous nations and public lands is disgraceful.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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“Shameful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameful. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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