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shame
the feeling you have when you feel guilty and embarrassed because you, or someone who is close to you, have done something wrong:
• She never overcame the shame of having abandoned her children. • He remembered his angry words with a deep sense of shame. • Following the scandal, Garrison resigned in shame.
humiliation
a feeling of shame and embarrassment because you have been made to look weak or stupid in front of other people:
• What really upset me was the humiliation of having to ask her for money. • He suffered the humiliation of defeat in the first round of the competition.
dishonour
British English , dishonor American English formal the loss of other people’s respect because you have done something bad, or you have been unsuccessful:
• His comments have brought shame and dishonour on him and his profession. • There is no dishonour in failure when you have done everything you possibly can to succeed.
stigma
the feeling that other people in society disapprove of you because of something that has happened to you, or because you feel different from most other people in some way – used especially when this seems unfair and unreasonable:
• Even when someone has been found innocent of a crime, the stigma often remains. • At first I found the stigma of being unemployed very difficult to cope with. • In many countries there is still a strong social stigma attached to homosexuality.
great shame
disgrace
a complete loss of people’s respect because you have done something very bad and shocking:
• His actions brought disgrace on the family. • The players were sent home in disgrace after admitting taking drugs. • Garton killed himself because he could not bear the disgrace of being charged with corruption.
ignominy
formal a feeling of great shame and embarrassment because you have been made to look weak or stupid – a very formal use:
• The team suffered the ignominy of losing five games in a row. • She hoped to avoid the ignominy of having to appear in court.
Longman-Thesaurus
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verb ADV. publicly The people who did this deserve to be publicly shamed. PREP. into An outcry from customers has shamed the company into lowering its prices., noun feeling that you have lost the respect of others ADJ. deep VERB + SHAME be filled with, feel | bring, cause His arrest for stealing brought shame on his family. | die of (figurative) I nearly died of shame! PREP. from ~ She wept from the shame of having let everyone down. | in ~ She shut her eyes in shame. | to your ~ To my shame, I didn't tell Robert about the party. | without ~ He had cried noisily and without shame at the news of Esther's death. | with ~ She blushed with shame. | ~ about/over You feel absolutely no shame over what you did, do you? | ~ at She felt a flush of shame at what she'd done. PHRASES a cause for shame Her pregnancy was no cause for shame. | a feeling/sense of shame, bow/hang your head in shame He was being held by two security guards, his head bowed in shame. a shame: sth that makes you feel disappointed ADJ. crying, great, real, terrible, wicked PREP. ~ about It's a terrible shame about Stuart losing his job, isn't it? PHRASES a bit of a shame, rather a shame, such a shame, what a shame What a shame you can't come!
Oxford Collocations Dictionary