Sentence examples for Shameful from inspiring English sources

The word 'shameful' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to express feelings of regret, humiliation, or embarrassment. For example, "Her behavior was shameful, and she was deeply embarrassed afterwards."

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Shameful

adjective

Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful

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Tessa Gregory, a solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers who is acting on behalf on Birmingham students challenging the claim, described the university authority's actions as shameful and draconian.

It is a shameful attempt by the university to prevent students from exercising their lawful right to protest".

Back then, women's "soccer" was frequently depicted as a joke – or even something slightly shameful.

The former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind went further, saying the papers showed "Labour up to its neck in a shoddy business, one of the most foolish and shameful decisions in recent years".

"None of my instructors knew, because it was a shameful thing," says Williams.

In Chichester he had enjoyed singing with the choir but that opportunity was not available to him at school in the US, where singing was considered "effeminate" and "shameful" among the boys.

After three long and painful months full of heated discussions, it was finally agreed that the colleague who complained would issue my partner's payment every month but that the name of my partner would not appear on the receipt so she would not have to face her team with the shameful news, which was her major concern.

Rabbit-Proof Fence was the film that brought one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history to the attention of the world.

I had some minor consciousness of widespread violence against Tasmania's Aboriginal people, and I was moved by the shameful stories of the forced removal of Aboriginal children.

Politicians from both sides are trying to represent it as a political conflict, and are trying to solve it with the usual political methods – through secret deals and shameful compromises, hypnotising rebels with the prospects of "voting" and "negotiations".

In a letter to the judge, Bygraves admitted the attack was the "most horrible, horrific, shameful crime" he has committed.

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