name and shame



name and shame

1. verb phrase To publicly name or otherwise identify a person, group, or organization that is guilty of some criminal or anti-social act so as to expose him, her, or them to public shame. The federal agency's plan—to name and shame local criminals across the country with a published list of their names and convictions—is being branded by some advocacy groups as a violation of privacy.
2. noun phrase The act of exposing a culpable person, group, or organization to public shame. Look, I'm just as upset as anyone, but I'm not willing to take part in some name and shame against everyone in the neighborhood!
See also: and, name, shame

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Yuliy-Russian
Reuven-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
IgorEE-gər (Russian), EE-gawr (Polish)Russian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
EsztiES-teeHungarian
Josune-Basque
Batraz-Ossetian, Caucasian Mythology