shameworthy

English

Etymology

From shame +‎ -worthy. Compare German schämenswert (“shameworthy”).

Adjective

shameworthy (comparative more shameworthy, superlative most shameworthy)

1. Worthy of shame; shameful.
   • 2000, Liz Sayce, From psychiatric patient to citizen:

     It is still filled with the notion that users are blameworthy, shameworthy, to be invalidated and avoided.

   • 2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes:

     […] use of homophobic pejoratives will most certainly continue to compromise the psychological health of young homosexual and bisexual people by insidiously constructing their sexuality as something wrong, dangerous or shameworthy.