Sentence examples for shamed from inspiring English sources

The word "shamed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as a past participle of the verb "to shame" to describe someone who has been made to feel embarrassed or humiliated. For example, "Her behavior shamed her family."

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shamed

verb

Past of shame

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The defence offered by one of the latest care employers to be named and shamed, East Midlands Crossroads – Caring for Carers, that the rules are "complex, in parts ambiguous and open to interpretation", does not sound good.

The film turns him from the engaging, often witty and openly gay man he really was into a socially dysfunctional recluse, unable to understand jokes and shamed by his own sexuality.

There's no question the shamed Frenchman deserved the lengthy ban which Manchester United have wisely and quite properly delivered themselves.

The way Sitkin tells it, he and another councillor called in the big six energy firms and played good cop-bad cop, asking each company representative to give more of their local work to local contractors with local staff – or run the risk of being named and shamed in the local press.

I am not advocating a culture of penalties where students are named and shamed, as happens in plagiarism cases: I can understand why some students do it.

This is an edited extract from So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson, published next month by Picador at £16.99.

Initially, members would be named and shamed, or suspended from parliament for hours or days.

The Mahon tribunal, which sat for more than 15 years, has shamed a series of senior figures in Fianna Fáil, once considered the dominant party in Irish politics.

What they told me they feared from Ghomeshi, they now tell me they fear from Donovan's book: having their "full stories" laid bare to the public, being exposed and shamed.

It is the only way our German friends can get past the shame of being shamed by Austria.

Although his crime was deplorable, as was the example he set his countless young followers, and despite the fact that his aggression has shamed the magnificent traditions of Manchester United Football Club and their supporters, Cantona, to the best of my knowledge, has not murdered or raped anybody.

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