shameful

Example Sentences

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Headlined “The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted,” the ad claimed that the Nobel Prize committee had unfairly denied him the prize.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

“I like to say that envy is a universal emotion that nobody seems to have,” said Josh Gressel, author of the book “Embracing Envy: Finding the Spiritual Treasure in our Most Shameful Emotion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2021

"How could you do such a disservice to a vibrant, beautiful woman? Shameful."

From Fox News • Jan. 12, 2021

In those same messages, Gunst and Alford also trace the first use of “rage baking” to a 2013 Tumblr post on novelist Erika Swyler’s blog the Shameful Baker.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2020

It was a Horrible and Shameful Place, conspicuous for such even in those days, when every prison was a place of Horror and Shame.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus