shamefully

Example Sentences

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Shamefully, the court has never cited any Black figure from Reconstruction—not even Frederick Douglass—in a majority opinion.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

"Shamefully, today's decision tosses aside that social commitment."

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2022

Shamefully underseen and underacknowledged, the 1979 revisionist vampire thriller “Thirst” dispenses with crucifixes, fangs, wooden stakes and garlic; in fact, with pretty much everything supernatural.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Shamefully, federal courts for nearly a century declined to enforce the Ku Klux Klan Act as it was intended to operate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2020

Then did mother unholy to son that knew not abase her, Shamefully, fear'd not unholy the blessed dead to dishonour.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson