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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shaming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an act or instance of shaming someone, often in a social or public context.
Example: "The online community engaged in a shaming of those who did not follow the new guidelines."
Alternatives: "a humiliation" or "a disgrace."
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In a shaming week, this brought some shameful comfort.
Here I must admit to a shaming habit.
A shaming e-mail if I don't do my assignment should be included in the price.
He knew quite a shaming amount about the second world war.
Anti-choicers had every reason to believe a shaming campaign would work.
But the worst offenders in a shaming saga were the media.
We think how hurt we might be by a shaming betrayal.
James Mason plays Ed Avery, a genial smalltown schoolteacher with a shaming secret.
I doubt that this response springs from the historical use of head-shaving as a shaming device.
Best of all, a moral response — a shaming — can be an unlimited response, not a limited one.
The movie's most agonising moment comes when Marjane confesses to her grandmother a shaming episode of collaboration with the oppressor.
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