Synonyms:
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
Meaning: (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"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
Usage examples
Mitya, how shameful it is!
The abuse master gets for your sake is quite shameful.
Claudius was the first defender of this shameful practice."
Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste."
And naught was left King Alfred But shameful tears of rage, In the island in the river In the end of all his age.
'Not so!' cried the sultan, 'but a shameful death you shall die!' And the princess fell on her knees, and begged she might die with him.
"To carry her home with us, that she may die a shameful death; but if we return without her, we must die the death she should have died."
The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
And at the last battle that he did was slain Sir Nanowne le Petite, the which he put to a shameful death in despite of King Arthur, for he was drawn limb-meal.
The doctor was simply howled out of the country. It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.