shameful
adjective
causing shame.
shamefulness
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a word derived from
shameful.
Example Sentences
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This was meant to call attention to the shamefulness of this hearing, "if shame was still a thing," as the committee's ranking member Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. put it.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
In the highest-profile examples of our shamefulness, Twitter has disassembled people and careers before the public’s very eyes.
From Time ● Mar. 20, 2015
But no sooner is this claim made than some bit of shamefulness materialises.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2012
The inherent shamefulness of overzealous rooting—guilty as charged—causes me to duck out on social obligations, especially when I know the game will be ruined by a fun anchor who's indifferent about sports.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
She saw the shamefulness of his position, felt the fettered wickedness in him which would blaze out into evil rage in the long run, so that he was like a persistent, strong creature tethered.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
