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Adjective shameful has 2 senses
- black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
Antonyms: honorable, honourable (indirect, via dishonorable)
- disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking - giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
Antonym: moral (indirect, via immoral, amoral)
Antonyms: amoral, unmoral (indirect, via moral, immoral)
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