Etymology
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From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)
- Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
shameful publicity
a shameful act
2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo[1]:"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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Translations
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causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Aromanian: arushinos
- Bulgarian: срамен (bg) (sramen), позорен (bg) (pozoren)
- Catalan: vergonyós (ca), escadalós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可恥/可耻 (zh) (kěchǐ)
- Czech: hanebný (cs), ostudný
- Dutch: beschamend (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: häpeällinen (fi)
- French: honteux (fr), scandaleux (fr)
- Galician: vergoñoso (gl) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: schandbar, beschämend (de), blamabel (de), peinlich (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃 (agls)
- Greek: αισχυντηλός (el) (aischyntilós), ντροπιαστικός (el) (ntropiastikós)
- Ancient: αἰσχρός (aiskhrós), ἀεικής (aeikḗs)
- Hungarian: szégyenletes (hu)
- Irish: náireach, náiriúil, adhnáireach, aithiseach
- Italian: vergognoso (it) m
- Japanese: 恥ずべき (はずべき, hazubeki)
- Khmer: គួរអោយអាម៉ាស់ (kuəʼaoyʼaamah)
- Latin: pudibundus, dēfōrmis
- Malayalam: ലജ്ജാവഹമായ (lajjāvahamāya)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: skamfull (no)
- Plautdietsch: schomphaupt, schaundhauft, schaundboa
- Polish: haniebny (pl) m
- Portuguese: vergonhoso (pt)
- Romanian: rușinos (ro)
- Russian: позо́рный (ru) (pozórnyj), посты́дный (ru) (postýdnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: nàr
- Serbo-Croatian: sramotan (sh) m
- Spanish: vergonzoso (es)
- Swedish: skamlig (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: стидни́й (stydnýj), соро́мний (sorómnyj), соромі́тний (soromítnyj)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Zazaki: arey
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