Shame

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A painful emotion caused by the awareness of having done something wrong or foolish.
  • noun. Respect for propriety or morality.
  • noun. A pervasive, negative emotional state, usually originating in childhood, marked by chronic self-reproach and a sense of personal failure.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A condition of disgrace or dishonor; ignominy.
  • noun. A regrettable or unfortunate situation.
  • noun. One that brings dishonor, disgrace, or condemnation.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To cause to feel shame.
  • transitive verb. To cause to feel ashamed to the point of doing something.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To bring dishonor or disgrace on.
  • transitive verb. To disgrace by surpassing.
  • idiom. (put to shame) To cause to feel shame.
  • idiom. (put to shame) To outdo thoroughly; surpass.
  • idiom. (sense of shame) An understanding and respect for propriety and morality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be or feel ashamed.
  • To be ashamed of.
  • To make ashamed; cause to blush or to feel degraded, dishonored, or disgraced.
  • To cover with reproach or ignominy; disgrace.
  • To force or drive by shame.
  • To shun through shame.
  • To mock at; deride; treat with contumely or contempt.
  • Synonyms To mortify, humilinte, abash.
  • noun. A painful feeling or sense of degradation excited by a consciousness of having done something unworthy of one's own previous idea of one's excellence; also, a peculiar painful feeling or sense of being in a situation offensive to decency, or likely to bring contempt upon the person experiencing the feeling.
  • noun. Tendency to feel distress at any breach of decorum or decency, especially at any unseemly exposure of one's person.
  • noun. A thing or person to be ashamed of; that which brings or is a source or cause of contempt, ignominy, or reproach; a disgrace or dishonor.
  • noun. Grossly injurious or ignominious treatment or acts; ignominy; disgrace; dishonor; derision; contempt; contumely.
  • noun. The parts of the body which modesty requires to be covered.
  • noun. Synonyms Mortification. Opprobrium, odium, obloquy, scandal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
  • noun. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
  • noun. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
  • noun. The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
  • noun. you should be ashamed; shame on you!
  • noun. to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace.
  • transitive verb. To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
  • transitive verb. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
  • transitive verb. To mock at; to deride.
  • intransitive verb. To be ashamed; to feel shame.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor, or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling. It is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.
  • noun. Something to regret.
  • noun. That which is shameful and private, especially on the personal body.
  • interjection. A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
  • interjection. Expressing sympathy.
  • verb. To feel shame, be ashamed.
  • verb. To cause to feel shame.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of dishonor
  • verb. compel through a sense of shame
  • Word Usage
    "April 15th, 2009 at 6:16 pm what is he so afraid of that he has to lower his head? shame, I say..shame. plain and simple"
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