shame
noun
the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another.
unshamed
-
a word derived from
shame.
Example Sentences
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My wife, shamed or unshamed, humbled or unhumbled, true to her marriage vows or false to them, now legally the wife of another, has never ceased to be my wife.
From The Younger Set by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Then spake Gunnar Great 'mid the people: "Over-late sister The Niblungs to summon; A long way to seek The helping of warriors, The high lord unshamed, From the hills of the Rhine!"
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
His lack of character was shown also in his unshamed confession concerning his real enemy.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
Hush, hush!" he exclaim'd, "My honor will live where my love lives, unshamed.
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
Thou art grey, And still would'st thou seem fair; Still unshamed drink, and play, And, wine-flushed, woo slow-answering Love with weak Shrill pipings.
From Verses and Translations by Charles Stuart Calverley
