shamefuladjective
uk/ˈʃeɪm.fəl/us/ˈʃeɪm.fəl/disapprovingC1 deserving blame, or being a reason for feeling ashamed:
I couldn't see anything shameful in what I had done.
The crime figures are shameful.
The family kept their shameful secret for years.
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Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- dishonour
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- in the doghouse idiom
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- peg
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shamefully
adverb uk/ˈʃeɪm.fəl.i/us/ˈʃeɪm.fəl.i/disapproving
Both of you have behaved shamefully.
The children had been shamefully neglected.
shamefulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈʃeɪm.fəl.nəs/us/ˈʃeɪm.fəl.nəs/