shameful

英 ['ʃeɪmfl] 美 ['ʃeɪmfl]

• adj. 可耻或丢脸的

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 可耻的
2. 丢脸的
3. 猥亵的，下流的
4. 不道德的
5. 不体面的
6. 厚颜无耻的
7. 应受责备的
8. 不公正的
9. 讨厌的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. (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"
   "an ignominious retreat"
   "inglorious defeat"
   "an opprobrious monument to human greed"
   "a shameful display of cowardice"
   

2. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation;

   "scandalous behavior"
   "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"
   "the most shocking book of its time"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. It was shameful of them to surrender.
   他们投降是可耻的。
2. They considered her behaviour a shameful piece of snobbery.
   他们认为她为人势利，行为可耻。
3. These shameful manoeuvres were aimed at securing his election.
   这些可耻的伎俩都是为了能让他当选。
4. There is nothing shameful about that, since she was a witch who had used a pillow to deceive him.
   这没有什么对不起人的地方，她是会拿枕头和他变戏法的女怪。

经典引文

• We..consider it especially shameful that..Pope Pius XII should be wrongly portrayed.

  出自：Times

• Psychiatric treatment was considered a shameful secret.

  出自： C. Easton

词义辨析

ashamed，shameful

• 这两个形容词均含“羞愧的”之意。
• ashamed用于人，指因干了错事、坏事或傻事等而感到羞愧。
• shameful指人或人的行为本身不光彩、不道德。

近反义词

【近义词】

• disgraceful 可耻的
• scandalous 不体面的
• humiliating 丢脸的
• deplorable 应受谴责的
• pitiful 慈悲的
• dishonorable 不名誉的
• discreditable 有损信用的
• black 黑的
• outrageous 过分的
• ignoble 平民的
• infamous 无耻的
• shocking 使人震惊的
• reprehensible 应受谴责的
• dishonourable 不名誉的
• appalling 令人震惊的
• inglorious 不名誉的
• ignominious 可耻的
• ashamed 感到惭愧的
• opprobrious 嘴不干净的