name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor;
disapprobation &c 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement,
debasement; abjectness &c adj.; degradation, dedecoration†; a long
farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium,
ignominy.
dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness,
vileness†; turpitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; 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 &c 879.
V. be inglorious &c adj.; incur disgrace &c 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 &c (modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace &c (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 &c n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw
dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect
dishonor upon &c n.; be a reproach &c n.. to; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase,
defile; beggar; expel &c (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 &c 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 &c (humble) 879.
Adj. disgraced &c v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams [Milton], shorn of
one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c n.; in bad
repute &c n.; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of
countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to
show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down
at the elbows, down in the world.
inglorious; nameless, renownless†; obscure; unknown to fame;
unnoticed, unnoted†, unhonored, unglorified†.
shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable;
questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating,
infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous†; scandalous, infamous, too bad,
unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous,
notorious.
ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low,
mean, shabby base &c (dishonorable) 940.
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken.
Int. fie!, shame!, for shame!, proh pudor! [Lat.], O tempora!†, O
mores!, ough!, sic transit gloria mundi! [Lat.],