It's shameful to loot the bodies of the people who died today.
And the love bred a shameful number of Snamione fanfics in the coming years.
They were enlisted in the fight against the community in a shameful way.”

All 22 example sentences with shameful

Synonyms of shameful

despicable

Forms of shameful

comparative	more shameful
superlative	most shameful

Origin of shameful

From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).

Words formed from shameful

Questions about shameful

What does shameful mean?: Shameful means causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful.
What is shameful in Hindi?: Shameful in Hindi is लज्जाजनक (lajjājnak). See Shameful meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shameful?: Shameful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce shameful?: Shameful is pronounced /ˈʃeɪmfəl/.

Words near shameful in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: shameful (page history and authors); shameful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shameful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shameful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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Adjective

shameful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

shameful in Hindi

shameful in Tamil

shameful in Urdu

shameful in Malayalam

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