shames
Americannoun
PLURAL
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"It is one of the great shames that we didn't see enough of Duncan Spencer," says Campbell.
From BBC
He says it "shames the men and women who gave their lives in Iraq".
From BBC
"What's happened is horrendous. It is a betrayal and it shames us all," one former UK Special Forces officer told Panorama.
From BBC
You went from covering a basketball series to covering one of America’s greatest shames — its racist past and present.
From Los Angeles Times
One read: "It is that element of calculation in it that shames me and makes it murder."
From BBC
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