Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection II. Personal Affections
5. Extrinsic Affections
874. Disrepute.
dishonor, disgrace, shame, crying -, burning- shame; humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness; turpitude (improbity) [See Improbity]; infamy.
STIGMA, brand, reproach, imputation, slur, stain, blot, spot, blur; scandalum magnatum [L.], badge of infamy, blot in one’s escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister, champain, point champain [her.]; byword of reproach; object of scorn, hissing [archaic]; Ichabod.
tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.
argumentum ad verecundiam [L.]; sense of shame [See Humility].
play second fiddle; lose caste; “pale his uneffectual fire” [Hamlet]; recede into the shade; fall from one’s high estate; keep in the background (modesty) [See Modesty]; be conscious of disgrace (humility) [See Humility]; look -blue, – foolish, – like a fool; cut a -poor, – sorry- figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth [colloq.]; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in one’s ear [colloq.], slink away.
CAUSE SHAME &c. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw -, cast -, fling -, reflect- dishonor &c. n. upon; be a reproach to &c. n.; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot, sully, taint; dis- credit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel (punish) [See Punishment].
STIGMATIZE, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, impute shame to, brand, post, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread -, trample- under foot; show up [colloq.], drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend [See Disapprobation].
bring low, put down, snub; take down; take down a peg, – lower, – or two [colloq.].
OBSCURE, eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of [colloq.]; throw -, cast- into the shade; overshadow; leave -, put- in the background; push into a corner, put one’s nose out of joint [colloq.]; put out, put out of countenance.
DISCONCERT, upset, throw off one’s center, discompose; put to the blush (humble) [See Humility].
inglorious, nameless, renownless, obscure, unknown to fame, unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored, unglorified.
DISCREDITABLE, shameful, disgraceful, disreputable, despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy, derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [L.], dedecorous [rare]; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable, ribald, opprobrious; arrant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.
ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, petty, shabby; base (dishonorable) [See Improbity].