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# shameful

«shameful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Causing shame; so bad or wrong that people should feel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (shameful, more shameful, most shameful); adverb «shamefully»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Causing shame; so bad or wrong that people should feel ashamed of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#m1)

2) Disgraceful; shocking in a bad way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics lessons and stories: shameful behaviour, a shameful secret. In news: «a shameful decision». It judges an action, not just a feeling. Phrases: «a shameful thing», «it's shameful that», «shameful behaviour», «a shameful secret».

### examples

- It's shameful to laugh at someone who has fallen over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x1)
- Cheating in the test was a shameful thing to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x2)
- The way they treated the new girl was shameful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x3)
- He kept the shameful secret for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x4)
- It is shameful that the park is full of litter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x5)
- Leaving the dog without water all day was shameful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x6)
- What a shameful day for me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/#x7)

### note

Do not confuse with «ashamed» (feeling shame: «I'm ashamed») and «shameless» (feeling no shame when you should). Shameful describes the act; ashamed describes the person.

### In the corpora

- [That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/36/)
- [Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shameful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shameful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.