Meanings
comparative more shameworthy · superlative most shameworthy
- Worthy of shame; shameful.
It is still filled with the notion that users are blameworthy, shameworthy, to be invalidated and avoided.
2000, Liz Sayce, From psychiatric patient to citizen1 more example
[…] use of homophobic pejoratives will most certainly continue to compromise the psychological health of young homosexual and bisexual people by insidiously constructing their sexuality as something wrong, dangerous or shameworthy.
2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes
Origin
From shame + -worthy. Compare German schämenswert (“shameworthy”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
shameworthy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shameworthy
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