shameful的意思|shameful的解释-里氏词典

shameful

a. 可耻的, 丢脸的, 不道德的, 淫猥的, 猥亵的, 不体面的

shameful

[ adj ]

(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

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Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands

an ignominious retreat

inglorious defeat

an opprobrious monument to human greed

a shameful display of cowardice

giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

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scandalous behavior

the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt

the most shocking book of its time

Shameful \Shame"ful\, a.
1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation;
disgraceful.

His naval preparations were not more surprising than
his quick and shameful retreat. --Arbuthnot.

2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a
shameful picture; a shameful sight. --Spenser.

Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming;
degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous.
※ -- {Shame"ful*ly}, adv. --
{Shame"ful*ness}, n.

"It's absolutely absurd and doubly shameful that it took five and a half months and involved thousands of innocent people to come up with a solution that reasonable men should have come up with sooner," Lee Rich said.
It was so embarrassing and shameful for me.
The man whose shameful taxi etiquette earned him the title of worst cabdriver in the city is being deported to Turkey, according to a published report.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said that at a time when the walls of oppression are falling in Eastern Europe, "it would be shameful to erect new barriers to freedom of expression" in America.
Getting in is the hard part, and these days there is nothing shameful about being a hard-charging dropout for a year.
Congress opened hearings on the Supreme Court's flag-burning decision Thursday, with one lawmaker foreseeing violence if the decision isn't overturned and another decrying "shameful and crass demagoguery" by those trying to amend the Constitution.
American Express Co. said Friday it had apologized to international banker Edmond Safra for what it called "an unauthorized and shameful effort" to encourage false media reports that Safra's banks had been involved in money laundering.
The official Radio Kabul, monitored in Islamabad, Pakistan said "after a shameful defeat" U.S.-backed rebels fled their positions around the city.
Education Secretary Kenneth Baker, speaking to the House of Commons, called the vote "shameful and despicable." "This is the loony left hijacking a great institution," he added.
Last Aug. 23, deputies in the lower house of parliament passed a resolution condemning the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as "shameful." Earlier, the Communist Party had condemned the secret protocols as "a flagrant violation" of international law.
"The administration's position is shameful.
Some of the good guys are communists, whose allegiance to Stalin is surely as shameful as Lindbergh's isolationism, though we don't hear about this in other little speeches.
"The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson," premiering tonight on Ted Turner's TNT cable network, dramatizes that shameful, relatively little-known period in the history of the Army and the United States.
"It is a shameful, ugly mess," he says.
At first, Dan's secret was small and shameful. Then it festered and grew and took on a life of its own, tormenting its keeper until it controlled his every waking hour.
'This shameful phenomenon has grown over the last years,' Mr Friso told a news briefing in Geneva.
"Your behavior at the Congress is the most shameful act of your political biography," he said before he was interrupted by loud chants of "Shame!" "You have to decide who you are for, the bureaucracy or the people.
"It became shameful to be seen in a sealskin coat," complains Adolf Jensen, a hunter from a small village 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Mr. Smith was infuriated by the settlement, calling it "disgraceful, shameful."
Bennett said jurors did not consider the film art and were divided over whether it appealed to purient interests, defined as a "shameful or morbid interest in sex." But they agreed the movie was not patently offensive.
Yet some Westerners and Western guidebooks have wondered whether the memorial at Khatyn was built to blur the shameful memory of what happened at Katyn, that other place with a similar name.
Far from feeling shameful at committing such sacrilege, Oliva stoutly defends his product: 'It looks like beer, it tastes like beer and it has a head, too,' he says.

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