different between indelicate vs shameful
indelicate
English
Etymology
in- +? delicate
Adjective
indelicate (comparative more indelicate, superlative most indelicate)
- Improper or immodest.
- Coarse or tasteless.
- Tactless or undiplomatic.
Translations
Italian
Adjective
indelicate
- feminine plural of indelicato
Anagrams
- decliniate
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shameful
English
Etymology
From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *s?eamfull, s?eomfull, equivalent to shame +? -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?mf?l/
Adjective
shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)
- Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- Giving offense.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:despicable
Derived terms
- shamefully
- shamefulness
Translations
shameful From the web:
- shameful meaning
- what does shameful mean
- what a shameful behaviour
- what a shameful display
- what a shameful thing to say
- what a shameful act
- what is shameful behavior
- what are shameful things
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