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shameworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Worthy of shame; shameful.
   • It is still filled with the notion that users are blameworthy, shameworthy, to be invalidated and avoided. 2000, Liz Sayce, From psychiatric patient to citizen:
   • […] 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. 2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes:

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