as in notorious
not respectable
shameful behavior by a bunch of drunken boors
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Recent Examples of shameful
This is a shameful act by our Congress and by our president that is going to set our country back.
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ABC News, 6 July 2025
Boulet grew up near Lake Tahoe in the 1990s and early aughts, when steroid use had a mostly shameful association with athletes like Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, whose record-breaking feats came with an asterisk.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
Queerness was presented as something wrong, shameful or evil.
—Gary Adrian Randall, Denver Post, 25 June 2025
Vallas’ insistence on elevating the payouts to survivors of police violence and the criminal justice reform measures aimed at the curtailment of civil rights abuses to a greater level of concern than the police abuses of power that our city is unfortunately known for is nothing short of shameful.
—Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
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ABC News, 6 July 2025
Boulet grew up near Lake Tahoe in the 1990s and early aughts, when steroid use had a mostly shameful association with athletes like Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, whose record-breaking feats came with an asterisk.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
Queerness was presented as something wrong, shameful or evil.
—Gary Adrian Randall, Denver Post, 25 June 2025
Vallas’ insistence on elevating the payouts to survivors of police violence and the criminal justice reform measures aimed at the curtailment of civil rights abuses to a greater level of concern than the police abuses of power that our city is unfortunately known for is nothing short of shameful.
—Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameful
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This being the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's landmark shark horror film, much of the convention was devoted to celebrating Jaws' milestone — for better or for worse — in the representation of the notorious marine mammals.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
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The most notorious, the Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, had been converted into the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory.—
Julia M. Klein,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
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Billy Bush brought up Donald Trump‘s infamous Access Hollywood tape during a new interview with Rob Lowe on the actor’s SiriusXM podcast Literally!—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived—not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 July 2025
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Unlike phishing emails or shady downloads, the malicious code arrived through routine, automatic updates and raised no immediate red flags.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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To preserve your tools, clean them off then tuck them away somewhere cooler, dryer, and shadier like a garden shed or garage.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
14 July 2025
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The Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a federal law that prohibits the interstate or foreign transportation of individuals for prostitution or other immoral activities.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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Swaggart, in July 1986, had accused a megachurch rival, New Orleans First Assembly of God Pastor Marvin Gorman, of committing immoral acts with a number of women over a period of years.—
Frank E. Lockwood,
Arkansas Online,
1 July 2025
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This panel will examine mass incarceration through multiple lenses and how the criminal justice system serves as a point of crisis of public health, black wealth building, voter disenfranchisement, and family structure.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 July 2025
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The incident took place at the Norwood Avenue subway station at 9 a.m. Marshall was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, as well as third-degree assault and second-degree harassment.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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From controversial dumpings to explosive fights to disgraceful exits, there was no shortage of drama this season.—
Daysia Tolentino,
EW.com,
8 July 2025
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The example of Lish and many of the literary people in New York encouraged me to drop a leftover notion from my Presbyterian childhood that making a show of yourself was somehow embarrassing and disgraceful.—
Jane Smiley
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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