Reverse Dictionary: SHAME

ADJECTIVES
► ADASHED put to shame → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BASHFUL exciting a feeling of shame → 1559 obs.
► BLACK-BURNING causing intense blushing or shame → Bk1911 Sc. 
► DUSTED shamed, humiliated → 1980s sl.
► FALSE of shame, pride: arising from mistaken notions → 1791
► HANGED-LIKE shame-faced, hangdog like → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► IGNOMINIOUS involving shame, disgrace, or obloquy; shameful, disgraceful, discreditable → 1526
► IGNOMIOUS involving shame, disgrace or obloquy; disgraceful, shameful → 1574 obs.
► MAKE-SHAME causing shame → 1850
► OF-SHAMED put to shame, ashamed → c1000 obs.
► PUDENT having a sense of shame or decency; modest; delicate → 1908 rare
► PUDIBUNDOUS shame-faced; bashful; modest → 1656 obs.
► SHAMEFACED showing shame, abashed → L19
► SHAMEFAST showing shame; abashed → ME obs.
► SHUTTERED in a state of total ignominy → L19 sl.
► SMOOTY-FACED shy, bashful, modest, shame-faced → B1900 Eng. dial.
► VERECUNDOUS modest, shamefaced, demure → 1656

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► AIN’T NO SHAME IN MY GAME used to express a lack of shame when engaged in an activity that might shame others→ 2002 US sl.
► DEAD TO SHAME no longer capable of feeling shame; grown hardened to shame
► FOR SHAME! a reproof to a person for not feeling or showing shame
► SHAME IS PAST THE SHED OF HIS HEAD he has lost all sense of shame → 1382 obs.
► SHAME ON YOU! you should be ashamed
► TOUGH LUCK that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1886 US sl.
► TOUGH NIBS that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1960s US sl.
► TOUGH NOOGIES that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1960s US sl.
► TOUGH PATOOTIE that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1960s US sl.
► TOUGH ROCKS that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1960s US sl.
► TOUGH SHIT that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1940s US sl.
► TOUGH TIDDY ► TOUGH TITTY that’s too bad; that’s a terrible shame → 1934 US sl.

NOUNS
► ABUSION violation of law or right, outrage, wrong; anything opposed to propriety; bad or improper usage; corrupt or shameful fact or practice → c1374 obs.
► ADOXY ignominy, shame; slander, infamy → 1656 obs.
► ATIFER shame or regret at certain word or act → 1920 Sc.
► BASHMENT confusion from surprise or sudden check; discomfiture, shame → c1325 obs.
► BISMER shame, disgrace, reproach, mockery, scorn → c893 obs.
► COVER-SHAME something used to conceal shame; a garment used to cover nakedness → 1629
► DEFAMATION the bringing of ill fame or dishonour upon any one; disgrace, shame → 1303 obs.
► FASH confusion, shame → 1841 Eng. dial.
► HOUNTAGE shame, disgrace → 1390 obs.
► HOUNTEE insult, abuse; also, shame, ignominy → 1330 obs.
► IGNOMINY dishonour, disgrace, shame; infamy; the condition of being in disgrace, etc. → 1540
► IGNOMY dishonour, disgrace, shame; infamy → 1534 obs.
► OPPROBRIOUSNESS opprobrium, shame, disgrace → a1540 obs.
► OPPROBRY a condition of infamy, shame, disgrace, or reproach → 1432-50 obs.
► PUDENCY modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness → 1605
► SHENDSHIP shame → 1382
► SHOND shame, disgrace, infamy; scandal → a900 obs.
► SIN a pity; a shame → c1300, now chiefly Sc.
► SKELETON IN THE CLOSET, A a secret source of shame or pain to a family or person → 1855
► SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, A a secret source of shame or pain to a family or person → 1859
► TWINGE a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience → 1622
► VERGOYNE shame → 1484 obs.

VERBS
► BESHAME to shame; to be ashamed → 1889 Eng. dial.
► CATAMIDIATE to put one to open shame and punishment for some notorious offense; to scorn, to defame → 1656 obs.
► DASH to confound, to put to shame, to abash → 1570
► FASH to shame, to cast down → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► FEEL MEAN to feel ashamed of one’s unpleasant conduct → M19 sl.
► HANG UP ONE’S HIDE to make a spectacle of, to shame or disgrace → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► LOOK DOWN ONE’S NOSE to look chagrined, baffled, or ashamed→ Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► OFSHAME to put to shame → c888 obs.
► SHEND to put to shame or confusion; to confound, to disgrace → 825 arch.
► SHOW UP to put to shame; to embarrass ..colloq.
► TAKE SHAME ON ONESELF to accept shame or disgrace as merited; to acknowledge that one is at fault
► THINK SHAME to be ashamed → c1275 obs. exc. Sc.
► UNBLUSH to cease to be ashamed → 1620