mindmap root((蒙羞)) disgrace often implies loss of favor or complete humiliation and sometimes ostracism: his conviction for bribery brought ~ upon his family. dishonor emphasizes the loss of honor that one has previously enjoyed or the loss of self-esteem: prefer death to life with ~. disrepute stresses loss of one's good name or the acquiring of a bad repute: a once-proud name now fallen into ~. shame implies particularly humiliating disgrace or disrepute and is likely to stress the strong emotional reaction of the one affected: could hardly live with the ~. infamy implies notoriety as well as exceeding shame: a gangster whose name retains an enduring ~. ignominy stresses the almost unendurable contemptibility or despicableness of the disgrace: suffered the ~ of being brought back in irons. opprobrium adds to disgrace the notion of being severely reproached or condemned: bring ~ on oneself by expulsion from school.