shame

/ˈshām/

Middle English, from Old English scamu; akin to Old High German scama shame

noun

  1. a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety

  2. the susceptibility to such emotion

  3. a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute : ignominy

have you no shame?

verb

  1. to bring shame to : disgrace

  2. to put to shame by outdoing

  3. to cause to feel shame

shamed the family name

idiom

  1. —used to say that someone should feel sorry for doing something wrong