How To Use Shameful In A Sentence

Our imperial past is now regarded rather shamefully. Times, Sunday Times
He hesitates, looking particularly grave, and finally brings himself to utter the shameful words.
I would venture the opinion that the TRC was a logical conclusion to our atrocious and shameful past. SPEECH BY ADV DE LANGE ANC MP DURING THE PRESIDENT'S TABLING OF RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO THE TRC
It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.
The man Christ's voluntary and most innocent, most shameful, and most cruel death on the Cross was the deletion and purgation of, and the satisfaction for, all the carnal desires of human nature.
The history of racism in accusations and punishments for rape is sordid and shameful.
My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Clarissa Harlowe
A jury in Canada has found three members of an Afghan family guilty of drowning three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". 'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty
As a democrat, I think it's shameful to suggest McCain will be losing his seat because "[e] very Latina is Arizona will turn out to make sure he does not make it back to Washington" for voting against Sotomayor. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
To my horror, Tulsi Pipe Road was now shamefully dug up, its bowels exposed and the entrails left lying on one side for the world to see.
In his book he traces the shameful collaboration between government personnel officers and the D.C. vice squads that fueled inquisitions, investigations and systematic removals of gay people from federal agencies.
The reluctance by our present government to investigate thoroughly and put closure on this matter is shameful.
And Twickenham chiefs will read the riot act to players to avoid any repeat of their shameful off-field antics. The Sun
And Twickenham chiefs will read the riot act to players to avoid any repeat of their shameful off-field antics. The Sun
Nor is there any effort from the so-called distinguished agricultural scientists, economists, and social scientists to come out with proposals to put an end to this shameful blot on the country's image.
I give my personal apology to the victims and their families for this disrespectful and shameful behaviour. The Sun
Depression is seen by many as something shameful or embarrassing, and it's very easy to internalize that attitude.
But as shameful as inaction is, Alberta is expected to set some all time records for a new low.
The dealers profited shamefully at the expense of my family.
Our imperial past is now regarded rather shamefully. Times, Sunday Times
The previously undomesticated boy quickly realizes that half-measures like hastily buying his little cousin a pre-packaged lunch at a convenience store on the way to kindergarten can have traumatic consequences in a milieu where bringing in an amateurish or non-homemade bento is perceived as a symptom of a shamefully inadequate family. Daddies dearest
That betrays both their confidence in getting away with it and the fact they don't see dole fraud as especially wrong or shameful. The Sun
In the past, when homosexuality was still considered shameful, I was slow to confess my desires to anyone - which made my reluctance to return women's affections seem all the more ill-natured.
In the meantime, you still have until tonight to submit your stories of shameful misbehaviour.
This may be shameful, but it's genuinely impossible not to laugh.
Indians had been shamefully treated, and they remained victims of threats, bribery, and fraud.
Once a shadowy misfortune families hid as if it were shameful, depression is becoming just another slice of the health-care business.
President Obama has chosen a less dramatic path -- moral suasion -- calling the outsized bonuses "shameful" and going several times to Wall Street to appeal for change. Carla Seaquist: Recovery Without a Reckoning
What we once enjoyed and maybe even defended against less confused peers can sometimes emerge from the time-fog as a shamefully regrettable “phase” that etches an embarrassing low-water mark for all films (or romances) to follow. Top 10 Classic Movies That Got it Wrong » Scene-Stealers
To be weak and shameful is a disgrace severe enough to be punishable by death according to my standards.
This shameful case should serve as a painful lesson for those in power.
He claims we allow our ‘culture’ to become desexualized by opting for roles as monogamous spouses and television decorators, which somehow lets society cast our sexuality as shameful and secret.
Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess.
Such shameful behaviour will certainly derogate from his fame.
Shamefully, a large chunk of French and German spending on education is a form of tied aid that enables the children of the elite in poor countries to study at European universities.
The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Tonight, we're reporting on the president's blistering attack on what he calls shameful bonuses on Wall Street. CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009
Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
Meghan was shameful for even contemplating about breaking up with Shawn even if she saw him kissing Jess.
Learn from it and never again devolve into this shameful mockery of justice. Primaries over, Democrats promote unity
Yes, I think there comes a point where putting a brave face on things becomes a shameful charade.
As might be expected, any suggestion of female sexuality or of sexual congress outside of marriage is treated as immoral and shameful.
This is a disgraceful, shameful attack on a student's freedom of speech at such a prestigious institution.
Hopefully, the shamefulness of the result will ensure the Parliamentary benches are purged for the election to follow.
He called a meeting of senior and responsible people of the village to bring normalcy in the locality and after describing the incident as shameful, he assured the people of a magisterial enquiry.
A shameful amount of time was spent wallowing in the opulence of the place. Times, Sunday Times
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Considering the shite we let live here and contribute nothing, the failure of this Government to let the Gurkhas, who have contributed, is nothing less than shameful. You Couldn’t Make It Up « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Those "lusty" email messages coming from a man in his 50's is totally shameful. Sanford contradicts himself on meetings with mistress
Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
His attempts to capitalise on a new film of the libel trial by embarking on a lecture tour are as shamefully opportunistic as they are pointless. Times, Sunday Times
But if all this is true, why has consumer credit had to battle so hard and so long against a shameful stigma of wastefulness and wrongdoing to achieve a moral and economic legitimacy?
Like crack cocaine for the soul, Charlie's Angels delivers shameful, addictive, and no doubt tremendously harmful fun.
The most distinguished bankers in Paris take part in this affair; not fictitiously, as in some shameful speculations which I call rat-traps. Parisians in the Country
It's shameful for me and for my family and for my beloved company, and for all of its employees and partners.
Patients were not allowed to develop bedsores (it was a shameful admission) and the wards, beds and sluices were spotless. Times, Sunday Times
There, in front of the people they have treated so shamefully, we can settle whether or not "De Klerk is 'n skelm". ANC Daily News Briefing
Raising their heads, both men looked up at the little dwelling, which seemed quite lifeless, with its narrow casements and its coarse, violet pargeting, displaying the shameful ugliness of poverty. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
He went on to give an emotional, blistering indictment of the Democrats and Republicans, both parties, for what he described as a shameful attempt, in his words, to conduct a shameless -- to walk -- let me get this quote right. CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2005
They stand next to some council flats now looking shamefully in need of care and attention next to their spanking new neighbours.
An official investigation has uncovered one of most shameful incidents in modern maritime history. Times, Sunday Times
He told the BBC's File on Four that the new inspections are "absolutely shameful, because it reduces the inspectorate to a toothless paper tiger, where nobody is physically going in". Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal
Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
This story is sordid and shameful, and everyone who was involved in producing it should be ashamed of themselves.
Shameful that so-called journalists these days always have to inflect their own opinion and/or emotions into stories. Poor Representation
Tod Thank you for the critique on my writing skills or lack of them, which I shamefully admit is a weak point, I have to admit to being more interested in substance over presentation, but the fact that you have responded to my critique of you, leads me to believe that you understand my poor grammar just fine. Child Abuse Alert
TODAY'S shameful junior doctors' strike proves that you can be academically bright yet clueless about life. The Sun
They were shamefully treated; and it is recorded that the Oxford scholars hissed and howled and groaned, and misconducted themselves in an anything but a scholarly way. A Child's History of England
The mayor has likened Montreal to a bombed-out city, claiming parking lots ‘shamefully disfigure’ the city's downtown core.
The guerrilla campaign for union with Greece had its share of shameful episodes on both sides. Times, Sunday Times
Which makes the catalogue of offences in two of the weekend's biggest games all the more shameful. The Sun
But there are a shameful number of schools that are almost useless. The Sun
A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
Oatmeal becomes infested with insects so readily that it cannot be considered reliable either, but it seemed shameful to complain when the convalescents ate the same food at the same table.
Fare more deintie, the Buildyng more gorgeous, thenhabitours ouer all became milder and wittier, shaking of (euen of their owne accorde) the bruteshe outrages and stearne dealinges, that shamefully mought be spoken of. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
The prefix fi - adds the idea of shamefulness to what follows, thus producing this easily understandable result, synonymous with the more usual Esperanto term bordel (o). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
‘The sellout of Aer Lingus is a shameful decision,’ Mr Rabbitte told delegates in his opening address at the Brandon Hotel.
Apply yourself to true riches; it is shameful to depend upon silver and gold for a happy life.
The duo had to offer grovelling apologies after the shameful end to the match.
Maybe these big-mouthed conspiracy-theorist shameful seniors should go back to kindergarten and learn how to "get along. Town hall meeting on health care turns ugly
Three players were sent off and players had to be pulled apart amid shameful scenes. The Sun
Tourists intent on bartering can be hugely insensitive to the fact that the locals they are hammering down to a bargain price may be incredibly poor and the sums involved shamefully petty by our standards.
I witneesed the local student was bushed by the taliban. as a pashton boy I am shameful that most of the taliban belong to this ethnic. these criminal (taliban) invited Osama Binladan to cam to Afghanistan promote terorist activity here kill innocent human, destory our country More Nato forces will be killed unless NATO quickly get out of Afghanistan. Examiner California Headlines
She told him: 'It is shameful that you are before the court. The Sun
He whispers the word ‘artist’ almost shamefully, with the accent of a theatrical luvvie.
A shameful amount of time was spent wallowing in the opulence of the place. Times, Sunday Times
I never wanted my blog to be a place where I make shameful plugs for products.
A general idea of the "Exercises" may best be gained from Diertins's summary: After setting forth the end for which God created man and all other things, the book, ever considering this truth as the first foundation, leads us in a short time by the way known as the purgative way to acknowledge the ugliness of the sins which have caused us to stray shamefully from the end, and to cleanse our souls from sin. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
As an important component of conscience, concept of right and wrong is the foundation of the consciousness of compassion, shamefulness and humility.
For Rand had already feared this; had recalled the few infelicitous relations, legal and illegal, which were common to the adjoining camp, -- the flagrantly miserable life of the husband of a San Francisco anonyma who lived in style at the Ferry, the shameful carousals and more shameful quarrels of the Frenchman and Mexican woman who "kept house" at "the Crossing," the awful spectacle of the three half-bred Indian children who played before the cabin of a fellow miner and townsman. The Twins of Table Mountain
Shameful state includes the exposure of physical indelicacy and off intellectual and moral weakness.
I just wish we, as pagans, could make the idea of harming others so alien, so shameful, so U�N-macho, that the idea of hexing or anyt�hing so stupid would be the farthest from anyone's mind, unless of course they WANTED to be thought of as less than human. White Magic Friday #1: Hot Rod Nite
Her wild, rash and unprecedented bombast was a shameful act of utter disrespect, not only to her constituency but also to the nation.
As confrontations ensue, a shameful family secret is revealed that will change their lives for ever.
Ireland's environmental reformists, the Green Party, have played a shameful role during the campaign.
What is required is a steady, unostentatious stoicism, made up out of absolute, cold hatred and contempt for the aggressors, and complete determination that their defeat will be utter and shameful.
It is hateful, shameful and a disgrace to all when it is used unintelligently.
In the shameful troubles excited by the refusal of sacraments, the simple presidial of Nantes condemned the bishop of that city to pay a fine of six thousand francs for having refused the communion to those who demanded it. A Philosophical Dictionary
Now such a public display of journalistic hooliganism is shameful.
[1991:] In the whole shameful episode of the Highland Clearances, no district l ost more of its people to America [than Sutherland], and by the beginning of the Shores of Sutherland
Incensed at the shameful slaughter of his son, Harald Harfagr came over from Norway about the year 900 to avenge him, but, as was then not unusual, accepted as a wergeld or atonement for his son's death a fine of sixty marks of gold, which it fell to the islanders to pay. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
This is almost universally regarded as a shameful blot on America's history, a cautionary tale of racism, paranoia, and wartime hysteria.
Also, her older sister drilled her mercilessly every day in martial arts, saying that both of them had gotten shamefully out of shape and needed practice.
In the meantime, you still have until tonight to submit your stories of shameful misbehaviour.
Apply yourself to true riches; it is shameful to depend upon silver and gold for a happy life.
Personally, I feel cheated if an election campaign does not include a modicum of shameful brawling.
Privately speaking, this is a sordid and criminal war, and in every way shameful and excuseless. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
I have done Gourgaud no wrong: every word imputed to him exists in the papers submitted to me as historical documents [28], and I should have been a shameful coward if I had shunned using them. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.
But hee, having alreadie acknowledged the contrarie, being stricken dumbe with shamefull disgrace, was not able to utter one word. The Decameron
In Classical times, the word connoted something more like 'bad form,' as when a flute player produced a sour note or 'shameful,' like a coward running away from battle. Any sympathy for the gay evangelicals?
The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance.
Long winter trousers are here for now so you can hide your shameful peachy skin.
Of course,we are aware of their shameful actions.
Only those who have no sense of shame can do such shameful things.
the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt
This is a great and shameful manner of killing christian men, that the fathers, the mothers, the masters, and the dames shall not alonely kill themselves, but all theirs, and all that belongeth unto them: and so this way is a great number of christian lineage murdered and spoiled. Sermons on the Card
I could tell you that I only cry when I'm very sad or hurt, but those are feeble excuses, inadequate reasons for condoning my shameful crime.
That these players think only of themselves and their pockets while their country collapses is shameful. The Sun
The hero of Troneg spake: “I do it in the hope that if we have a coward on this journey, who through faint-heartedness would run away, that in this stream he may die a shameful death.” The Nibelungenlied
We might hope to avoid the complications of a shameful history by looking to the church as our true family. Christianity Today
Have worn shameful manacles, have been bitten at the wriest by manacles Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs
Niobe was Queen of Thebes, as related in Ovid, whose children die as the gods 'punishment for her shameful boasting, while she turns to stone. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
Both shamefully used social division to their electoral advantage pursuing a governing style which corrodes probity and accountability.
I'm writing to say by god I agree with everything Former President Clinton said about how he was abandoned by flunky politicians, and that my blood also rises when I remember how shamefully he was treated - and not only him but also anyone he would want to protect were the prey of a lizard-like yet vicious pleasure the Republicans and gradually more Democrats took in diminishing him. Bill Clinton: 'The president needs your help'
So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. Great Expectations
That these players think only of themselves and their pockets while their country collapses is shameful. The Sun
The move came after after an ill-tempered Scottish Cup replay at Celtic Park on Wednesday which he described as "shameful". BBC News - Home
There are other cases where the religious emotions and ideals are completely subordinated to or become identified with feelings of fear or remorse, the result of fixed ideas of a shameful, distressing or frightsome character. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
I can't say anything about these as I shamefully ignored them completely in favour of an orgy of consumerist spending on clothes.
This applieth to the things forbidden by an absolute prohibition and of which the perpetration is a grave sin; they are so vile that even to mention them is shameful. Bahá’í World Faith
Which makes the catalogue of offences in two of the weekend's biggest games all the more shameful. The Sun
The most shameful episodes in the recent history of the press were recounted yesterday at the public inquiry into press standards. Times, Sunday Times
He treats you like a shameful secret. The Sun
On the part of sin, there are two things which may withdraw man therefrom: one is the inordinateness and shamefulness of the act, the consideration of which is wont to arouse man to repentance for the sin he has committed, and against this there is "impenitence," not as denoting permanence in sin until death, in which sense it was taken above (for thus it would not be a special sin, but a circumstance of sin), but as denoting the purpose of not repenting. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
We witnessed the shameful scenes just two days before the big clean-up. The Sun
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
I refer to the shameful state of the area behind Superdrug highlighted in your article on March 26.
The government's hateful message to migrants and refugees contrasts shamefully with its attitude to the oil companies.
That these players think only of themselves and their pockets while their country collapses is shameful. The Sun
Many unburdened themselves in juvenile memoirs or drawings which have been shamefully neglected until recently.
Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
I'm going to forward the link to my vegetarian mate J who, like most vegetarians I know, is pasty and feeble-looking and needs desperately to sink his shamefully underutilised, omnivorous gnashers into a fat, bloody steak.
The inclusion of B'Tselem in a list of groups called "questionable" and associated with the word "appalled" is a shameful smear. Rights and Democracy: Board members strike back
He added a hash tag to his tweet with the word "shameful. SI.com
Black, radical, Islamist, infanticidal socialist commie and shameful surrender monkey who pals around with terrorists. In New McCain Robocall, Rudy Giuliani Suggests Obama Opposes Jailing Murderers And Rapists
But the reasons brought to bear against suicide by the priests of monotheistic, that is of Jewish religions, and by those philosophers who adapt themselves to it, are weak sophisms easily contradicted. 20 Hume has furnished the most thorough refutation of them in his Essay on Suicide, which did not appear until after his death, and was immediately suppressed by the shameful bigotry and gross ecclesiastical tyranny existing in Essays of Schopenhauer
He said that lawmakers should be extremely vigilant about foul language ‘for the light utterance of shameful words leads soon to shameful actions.’
Most shamefully of all, she hid behind the tragic parents of the girl, who she exploited.
Now, worthy sirs, we next find our poor fellow citizen environed by a set of revellers and maskers who had assembled in the High Street, by whom he was shamefully ill treated, being compelled to kneel down in the street, and there to quaff huge quantities of liquor against his inclination, until at length he escaped from them by flight. The Fair Maid of Perth
It was a lawn of sweet close turf in the center of the matted brake, of clean firm earth from which no shameful growth sprouted, and near the middle of the glade was a stump of a felled yew-tree, left untrimmed by the woodman. The Hill of Dreams
A shameful catalogue of abandonment, betrayal, sell-out, dishonesty and total breach of trust.
If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
They considered her behaviour a shameful piece of snobbery.
Which makes the catalogue of offences in two of the weekend's biggest games all the more shameful. The Sun
As their relationship intensifies he finds excuses to lie to her about his shameful secret. Times, Sunday Times
The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, which represents about 80,000 families, said Iott's "failure to apologize is particularly shameful and desecrates the memory of all victims of the Nazis, Jew and non-Jew. Democrats criticize GOP over House nominee who dressed as Nazi during battle reenactments
That sort of dismissive attitude to a woman in pain and terror is shameful. The Sun
They have served me shamefully , ie have treated me very badly.
The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.
The jongleurs' display of the naked body and reliance on shameful movements further led both monastic writers and canonists to associate them with prostitution and lust.
The point is to expose hypocrisy or shameful behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
This was a stinking rotten election fought under shameful rules.
If it did, shameful episodes such as the mis-selling of endowments simply could not have happened. Times, Sunday Times
The shameful cowardliness of the man's commentating is simply unacceptable.
Afghan family guilty in honour killing A CANADIAN jury has found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
South Africans alone are guilty for this shameful marginalisation of our visual arts.
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
Apply yourself to true riches; it is shameful to depend upon silver and gold for a happy life.
Once the health risks are dramatically reduced or eliminated, will daily consumption of nicotine still be viewed as shameful and déclassé, as a disease to be treated or a problem to be overcome?
Guardian | A shameful history Os recentes comentários racistas de James Watson, prémio nobel e um dos investigadores que descreveu a estrutura do ADN, talvez sejam um pouco mais do que efeitos de uma hipotética senilidade; talvez sejam reflexo de uma velha tradição das ciências biológicas, sempre reprimida mas que vai não vai regressa à ribalta: a ideia de eugenia, ou de manipulação da selecção natural para aperfeiçoar a espécie humana. Leituras
This party had the nerve to announce his shameful embarrassments to all the world!
Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which A Philosophical Dictionary
The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene. Times, Sunday Times
And even though we're shamefully useless at this game, we're inclined to agree.
I grew up in the years when to be in debt was shameful.
The family was dignified and respectful even of the late senator and his family as this shameful secret was becoming public.
The disaster occurred at a time of year when we have just wallowed in a shameful orgy of over-indulgence and conspicuous consumption.
That these players think only of themselves and their pockets while their country collapses is shameful. The Sun
Susan felt bad that she had hurt Jason but she quickly held back shameful tears so she could speak.
Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him? Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
He clearly wanted to unburden himself about the way Labour governs the country and Parliament's ‘shameful’ inability to control the executive.
The grammar in that last sentence was really shameful, and it's going to look even worse typed out on a page.
What could be more shameful, or more pleasurable, in California today?
But she was married to the first princelet who happened to catch the eye of Empress Frederick, namely Prince Bernhardt of Saxe-Meiningen ” aye, and she was hustled into matrimony in such a hurry, too, as to give a sort of foundation for some shameful and base slanders, cruelly unmerited, but which one hears even Germans who profess loyalty to the crown repeating to this day. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
He had to drag the son of a poor and lower-middle-class peasant into his shameful affair.
Despite an attitude that considered dancing shamefully unmasculine, Juan was sufficiently motivated by this information to try his best.
However, there is evidence of the shameful goings on at Guantanamo Bay, where cameras have shown us cages not fit for animals, shackles, gags, hoods and blindfolds.
Martha Stewart making her statement, a defiant Martha Stewart, saying that this was a shameful day for her, for her family, for what she calls her beloved company. CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2004
Take Me Out - in all its shameful, neon, shouty, glorified knocking-shop splendour - has became a pivotal part of Saturday night TV. The Guardian World News
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
This particular kind of death makes people skittish, thinking suicide either a shameful or unmentionable kind of death.

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