A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.

Roget 923: wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se [Lat.]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.    injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness etc. adj.; iniquity, foul play.    partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit, partisanship; bigotry.    undueness etc. 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness etc. 964.    robbing Peter to pay Paul etc. v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice etc. 945.    a custom more honored in the breach than the a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet]. ... meer laten zien

Roget 960: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity^†, pucelage^†, virginity.    vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: schande, gêne, schaamte, schaamtegevoel
Pools: wstyd

A state of dishonor:
— One mistake brought shame to all his family.

synoniemen: disgrace, ignominy.

Roget 874: disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation etc. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness etc. adj.; degradation, dedecoration^†; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.    dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness^†; turpitude etc. (improbity) 940^†; infamy.    tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.    stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.    crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain^†, point champain^†; byword of reproach; Ichabod.    argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame etc. 879.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: schaamte, aanfluiting, afgang, schandaal, schande

An unfortunate development.

synoniem: pity.

Bring shame or dishonor upon.

synoniemen: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour.

Roget 874: be inglorious etc. adj.; incur disgrace etc. n.; have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself.    play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background etc. (modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace etc. (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in.    one's ear, slink away.    cause shame etc. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon etc. n.; be a reproach etc. n.. to; derogate from.    tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel etc. (punish) 972.    impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend etc. 932.    bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two.    obscure.    eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance.    upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush etc. (humble) 879.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bevlekken, bezoedelen, onteren, schenden

Compel through a sense of shame.

Cause to be ashamed.

Surpass or beat by a wide margin.