shameful

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Scrabble points: 16
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/ˈʃeɪmfəl/

Definition of shameful

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful

“shameful publicity”
“a shameful act”
“"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."”

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adj

Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful

“shameful publicity”
“a shameful act”
“"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."”
Giving offense.

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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skamō Proto-West Germanic *skamu Old English sċamu Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Old English sċeomfull Middle English schameful English shameful From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).

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