Other Words for Shame

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Shame as a Adjective has these synonyms:

embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, shamefacedness, loss of face, abashment
Example: Watts felt abysmal shame at being discovered stealing from petty cash.

pity, calamity, disaster, catastrophe, outrage
Example: What a shame that Gerry failed the exam.

Shame as a Noun has these synonyms:

coerce, force, drive, bully, push, embarrass, humiliate, mortify, humble
Example: The other boys shamed him into admitting that he had done it.

disgrace, embarrass, dishonour, scandalize, calumniate, degrade, debase, defame, discredit, stigmatize, smear, blacken, stain, taint, besmirch, tarnish
Example: I am sure, son, that nothing you ever do would shame the family or me.

disgrace, ignominy, dishonour, disrepute, degradation, opprobrium, vilification, calumniation, infamy, obloquy, odium, contempt, scandal, denigration, loss of face, defamation, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, derogation, disparagement
Example: To think that one knight's single act of cowardice in 1249 could have brought such shame to all his descendants.

embarrass, humiliate, mortify, humble, chagrin, disconcert, discountenance, put down, bring down, abash, chasten, bring (someone) down a peg, suppress, subdue
Example: He hated the teacher because she had shamed him in front of his friends.

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