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shameworthy

adj

Etymology

From shame + -worthy. Compare German schämenswert (“shameworthy”).

  1. inherited from *skamāną✻
  2. inherited from *skamēn✻
  3. inherited from sċamian
  4. inherited from schamen
  5. suffixed as shameworthy — “shame + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of shame

    Worthy of shame; shameful.

    • It is still filled with the notion that users are blameworthy, shameworthy, to be invalidated and avoided.
    • […] 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA