shame /shām/

1. The humiliating feeling of having appeared unfavourably in one's own eyes, or those of others, by having failed, offended, or been made to appear foolish, or a similar feeling on behalf of anything one associates with oneself
2. Susceptibility to such feeling
3. Fear or scorn of incurring disgrace or dishonour
4. Modesty
5. Bashfulness
6. Disgrace, ignominy
7. Disgraceful wrong
8. A cause or source of disgrace
9. A thing to be ashamed of
10. An instance or a case of hard or bad luck (informal)
11. Those parts of the body that it is felt to be immodest to expose (archaic)

1. How shameful, what a disgrace!
2. An expression of affection, warmth or sympathy (S Afr)

1. To make ashamed
2. To disgrace
3. To cause to seem humiliatingly poor or paltry by greater excellence
4. (often with into) to drive or compel by shame

To be ashamed

shameˈable or shamˈable adjective

shamed adjective

Ashamed

shameˈful adjective

Disgraceful

shameˈfully adverb

shameˈfulness noun

shameˈless adjective

1. Immodest, brazen
2. Done without shame

shameˈlessly adverb

shameˈlessness noun

shāˈmer noun

Someone who or that which causes shame

shameˈworthy adjective

shameˈfaced (formerly shameˈfast) adjective

1. (OE scamfæst) very modest or bashful
2. Showing shame
3. Abashed

shameˈfacedly /-fāst-li or fāˈsid-li/ adverb

shameˈfacedness (formerly shameˈfastness) noun

Modesty

shameˈ-proof adjective

Insensible to shame

for shame

An interjectional phrase, you should be ashamed

put to shame

To disgrace, esp by excelling

shame on (you, them, etc)

(you, they, etc) should be ashamed

tell the truth and shame the Devil

Put the Devil to disgraceful defeat by boldly telling the truth

think shame

To be ashamed

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