shameful
The damage to the profession grows day by day, and the shamefulness of it reflects on all of us.
We will never be able to erase the shamefulness which we brought upon ourselves with these crimes.
Most people try to deal with these events in secret, which only reinforces the impression of shamefulness.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
disgraced
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
ignoble
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something

Examples of shamefulness

shamefulness
In this case, humane behavior is largely a matter of learning the shamefulness of unjustified contempt.
Now that all had been arranged, a new embarrassment arose between us--a sweet shamefulness.
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I argued with him, and tried to convince him of the shamefulness of such a course of action.
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On the contrary, words cannot convey the whole horror and shamefulness of it.
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The shamefulness of your asking me to do that!
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The heart rises with indignation and disgust at the thought of the shamefulness of these miserable senators.
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Very often a few false appearances suffice to conceal to the eyes of easy consciences the hatefulness and shamefulness of fraudulent spoliations.
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The chaster she is, all the more will she revolt at the shamefulness of the verification!
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But she was so riven by the shamefulness of his imputation that she could not have found words to reply to him if she had wanted to.
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