"shameful" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈʃeɪmfəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-shameful.wav Forms: more shameful [comparative], most shameful [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|schameful}} Middle English schameful, {{inh|en|ang|*sċeamfull}} Old English *sċeamfull, {{af|en|shame|-ful|pos=adjective}} shame + -ful, {{cog|da|skamfuld|t=shameful, shamefast, ashamed}} Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)
  1. Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful Translations (causing or meriting shame or disgrace): αἰσχρός (aiskhrós) (Ancient Greek), ἀεικής (aeikḗs) (Ancient Greek), arushinos (Aromanian), срамен (sramen) (Bulgarian), позорен (pozoren) (Bulgarian), vergonyós (Catalan), escadalós (Catalan), 可恥 /可耻 (kěchǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), hanebný (Czech), ostudný (Czech), beschamend (Dutch), häpeällinen (Finnish), honteux (French), scandaleux (French), vergoñoso [masculine] (Galician), schandbar (German), beschämend (German), blamabel (German), peinlich (German), 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃 (agls) (Gothic), αισχυντηλός (aischyntilós) (Greek), ντροπιαστικός (ntropiastikós) (Greek), szégyenletes (Hungarian), náireach (Irish), náiriúil (Irish), adhnáireach (Irish), aithiseach (Irish), vergognoso [masculine] (Italian), 恥ずべき (hazubeki) (alt: はずべき) (Japanese), គួរអោយអាម៉ាស់ (kuəʼaoyʼaamah) (Khmer), pudibundus (Latin), dēfōrmis (Latin), ലജ്ജാവഹമായ (lajjāvahamāya) (Malayalam), skamfull (Norwegian), schomphaupt (Plautdietsch), schaundhauft (Plautdietsch), schaundboa (Plautdietsch), haniebny [masculine] (Polish), vergonhoso (Portuguese), rușinos (Romanian), позо́рный (pozórnyj) (Russian), посты́дный (postýdnyj) (Russian), nàr (Scottish Gaelic), sramotan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vergonzoso (Spanish), skamlig (Swedish), стидни́й (stydnýj) (Ukrainian), соро́мний (sorómnyj) (Ukrainian), соромі́тний (soromítnyj) (Ukrainian), hổ thẹn (Vietnamese), arey (Zazaki)
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  2. Giving offense.
    Sense id: en-shameful-en-adj-ILSOFw8j
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: despicable Derived forms: shamefully, shamefulness

Inflected forms

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          "text": "shameful publicity",
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          "ref": "2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:",
          "text": "\"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.\"",
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        [
          "Causing",
          "causing"
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          "meriting",
          "meriting"
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          "shame",
          "shame"
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          "disgrace",
          "disgrace"
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          "code": "rup",
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          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "срамен"
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pozoren",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "позорен"
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          "word": "vergonyós"
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          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "escadalós"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kěchǐ",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "可恥 /可耻"
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          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "hanebný"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "ostudný"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "beschamend"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "häpeällinen"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "honteux"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "scandaleux"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "vergoñoso"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "schandbar"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "beschämend"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "peinlich"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "agls",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aischyntilós",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "αισχυντηλός"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ntropiastikós",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "ντροπιαστικός"
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          "code": "grc",
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          "roman": "aiskhrós",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "αἰσχρός"
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          "roman": "aeikḗs",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "ἀεικής"
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          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "szégyenletes"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "náireach"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "náiriúil"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "adhnáireach"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "aithiseach"
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          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
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          "word": "vergognoso"
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          "alt": "はずべき",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hazubeki",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "恥ずべき"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "kuəʼaoyʼaamah",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "គួរអោយអាម៉ាស់"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "pudibundus"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "dēfōrmis"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "lajjāvahamāya",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "ലജ്ജാവഹമായ"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "skamfull"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "schomphaupt"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "schaundhauft"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "schaundboa"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "haniebny"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "vergonhoso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "rușinos"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pozórnyj",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "позо́рный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "postýdnyj",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "посты́дный"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "nàr"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sramotan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "vergonzoso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "skamlig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "stydnýj",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "стидни́й"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "sorómnyj",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "соро́мний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "soromítnyj",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "соромі́тний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "hổ thẹn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
          "word": "arey"
        }
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "Giving offense."
      ],
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        [
          "Giving",
          "giving"
        ],
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          "offense",
          "offense"
        ]
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃeɪmfəl/"
    },
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "despicable"
    }
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}
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    "English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Aromanian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Malayalam translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
    "Terms with Zazaki translations"
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    {
      "word": "shamefully"
    },
    {
      "word": "shamefulness"
    }
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        "3": "schameful"
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*sċeamfull"
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      "name": "af"
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”)",
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    }
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      "form": "more shameful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
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      "form": "most shameful",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "shameful publicity",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "a shameful act",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:",
          "text": "\"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.\"",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful"
      ],
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          "Causing",
          "causing"
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          "meriting",
          "meriting"
        ],
        [
          "shame",
          "shame"
        ],
        [
          "disgrace",
          "disgrace"
        ],
        [
          "disgraceful",
          "disgraceful"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Giving offense."
      ],
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        [
          "Giving",
          "giving"
        ],
        [
          "offense",
          "offense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃeɪmfəl/"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-shameful.wav",
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "despicable"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "arushinos"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sramen",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "срамен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pozoren",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "позорен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "vergonyós"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "escadalós"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kěchǐ",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "可恥 /可耻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "hanebný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "ostudný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "beschamend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "häpeällinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "honteux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "scandaleux"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vergoñoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "schandbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "beschämend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "blamabel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "peinlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "agls",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aischyntilós",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "αισχυντηλός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ntropiastikós",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "ντροπιαστικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aiskhrós",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "αἰσχρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aeikḗs",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "ἀεικής"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "szégyenletes"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "náireach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "náiriúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "adhnáireach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "aithiseach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vergognoso"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はずべき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hazubeki",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "恥ずべき"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kuəʼaoyʼaamah",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "គួរអោយអាម៉ាស់"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "pudibundus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "dēfōrmis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "lajjāvahamāya",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "ലജ്ജാവഹമായ"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "skamfull"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "schomphaupt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "schaundhauft"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "schaundboa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "haniebny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "vergonhoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "rușinos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pozórnyj",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "позо́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postýdnyj",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "посты́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "nàr"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sramotan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "vergonzoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "skamlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stydnýj",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "стидни́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sorómnyj",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "соро́мний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "soromítnyj",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "соромі́тний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "hổ thẹn"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "causing or meriting shame or disgrace",
      "word": "arey"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shameful"
}

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