Thesaurus / shame
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Evidence suggests that shame can undermine, rather than promote, moral motivation.
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If you talk to the women now — having participated in a series, having come clean with their story, having decided to speak openly about it to cameras — I think you’ll find much less shame.
“PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE”: HOW LOVE FRAUD BUILDS AN ABSORBING DOCUSERIES AROUND A ROMANTIC CON MANALISSA WILKINSONSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOX
It’s a shame with all of that flooding, we may miss it again the next time he’s actually onto something.
WE ALL SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO STEVE BANNONDANIEL MALLOYAUGUST 22, 2020OZY
What’s a shame is that Huawei has arguably the most efficient 5G products.
It would be a shame if that couldn’t be brought to bear across the whole planet.
Tell Lady Maude the candid truth, and take shame and blame to yourself, as you deserve.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
I had it put in order whilst you were in London; it was a shame to let a sacred place remain in such a state.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.
He could not possibly doubt or question, and shame flooded him till he felt himself the meanest man alive.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
My own yielding folly alone is to blame, and I shall take shame to myself for ever.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
WORDS RELATED TO SHAME
- act cool
- boycott
- brush off
- burr
- censure
- chill
- cool
- cut
- cut dead
- disdain
- disregard
- duck
- give the brush
- humble
- humiliate
- ice
- ice out
- ignore
- look coldly upon
- look right through
- mortify
- neglect
- not give time of day
- offend
- ostracize
- pass up
- put down
- put the chill on
- rebuff
- scold
- scorn
- scratch
- shame
- shun
- slight
- slur
- snob
- swank
- upstage
- adulterate
- besmirch
- blacken
- blemish
- blight
- blot
- blur
- brand
- break down
- cast a slur
- cloud
- cook
- corrupt
- crud up
- crumble
- cut
- damage
- debase
- decay
- decompose
- defile
- deprave
- discolor
- discredit
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disintegrate
- doctor
- foul
- give a bad name
- harm
- hurt
- infect
- muddy
- poison
- pollute
- putrefy
- rot
- shame
- smear
- soil
- spike
- spoil
- stain
- stigmatize
- sully
- tar
- tarnish
- trash
- turn
- water
- water down
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- bad luck
- bad omen
- bane
- blight
- blow
- blunder
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- collapse
- curse
- defeat
- destroyer
- difficulty
- disgrace
- doom
- downfall
- error
- failure
- fault
- faux pas
- flaw
- fumble
- grief
- humiliation
- last straw
- misadventure
- miscalculation
- mischance
- mishap
- misstep
- omission
- overthrow
- overturn
- reversal
- reverse
- ruin
- ruination
- shame
- slip
- smash
- stumble
- subversion
- trial
- trip
- trouble
- visitation
- weakness
- wreck
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