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shaming
adjective as in opprobrious
Weak matches
- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- maligning
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
adjective as in outrageous
Strongest matches
adjective as in shameful
Strongest matches
noun as in meanness
Example Sentences
"The proven life-threatening risks associated with a grades-based schools accountability system, based on public shaming and the fear of high stakes consequences, have not changed," they added.
“The sound of her humiliating cackle still haunts me,” Morticia tells her daughter, recounting the experience of her own mom, Hester, reading one of her earlier manuscripts and shaming her for it.
“No place for shaming the patient in medicine,” one user on Reddit wrote.
For the 18 seasons that aired between 2004 and 2020, the show normalized the shaming and mockery of fat people under the banner of inspirational programming.
"This is about making changes to the food products that are available for young children, not about shaming us as parents."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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