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91ignoble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. vile, base; knavish; detestable, low, common. See vulgarity, populace, disrepute.Ant., honorable. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shameful] Syn. disgraceful, mean, dishonorable; see corrupt 1 , mean 1 ,… …
92infamous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. shameful, abominable, disgraceful, unspeakable, contemptible; heinous, atrocious, base, discreditable. See improbity, disrepute. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Bad] Syn. odious, nefarious, base, vile;… …
93opprobrious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. abusive, insulting, offensive, slanderous, derogatory, contemptuous, malicious. See disrepute, detraction. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Expressing slander] Syn. scurrilous, slanderous, abusive,… …
94degrading — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. demeaning, debasing, shameful, humiliating, disgraceful, corrupting, lowering; see also insulting , shameful 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at mean . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. debasing, lowering, corrupting,… …
95disreputable — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In ill repute] Syn. low, objectionable, discreditable, unsavory; see dishonest 2 , offensive 2 , shameful 1 , 2 . 2. [Suggestive of ill repute] Syn. seedy, shabby, down at heel; see dirty 1 , shabby 1 . II (Roget s 3… …
96ashamed — ashamed, mortified, chagrined mean acutely or manifestly conscious of embarrassment and humiliation. One is ashamed whose embarrassment and humiliation are mixed sometimes with a sense of guilt and always with the awareness of being discredited… …
97scandalous — adjective giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation scandalous behavior the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt Thackeray the most shocking book of its time • Syn: ↑disgraceful, ↑shameful, ↑shocking …
98dirty one's hands — or[soil one s hands] {v. phr.} To lower or hurt one s character or good name; do a bad or shameful thing. * /The teacher warned the children not to dirty their hands by cheating in the examination./ * /I would not soil my hands by going with bad… …
99dirty one's hands — or[soil one s hands] {v. phr.} To lower or hurt one s character or good name; do a bad or shameful thing. * /The teacher warned the children not to dirty their hands by cheating in the examination./ * /I would not soil my hands by going with bad… …
100Flagitious — Fla*gi tious, a. [L. flagitiosus, fr. flagitium a shameful or disgraceful act, orig., a burning desire, heat of passion, from flagitare to demand hotly, fiercely; cf. flagrare to burn, E. flagrant.] 1. Disgracefully or shamefully criminal;… …
