Sentence examples for shameful activity from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, Cosa Nostra is reluctant to directly manage this business – according to the old mafia codes of honour, prostitution is considered a shameful activity.

Smoking was deemed a shameful activity and banished.

Playing fantasy sports should be like masturbating a vaguely shameful activity that you don't tell anyone about, but everyone knows you do it.

Playing fantasy sports should be like masturbating – a vaguely shameful activity that you don't tell anyone about, but everyone knows you do it.

"We regret and condemn the iniquities of the historic slave trade, but these shameful activities belong to the past.

Like the reports of the Church Committee on C.I.A. misdeeds during earlier generations, it will go down in history as an acknowledgement of shameful activities carried out in the name of the United States government, but also as testament to the fact that, in a democratic system, most such acts do, eventually, come to light.

Between the shameful NSA surveillance activity and its eventual impact on the U.S. dominance of the Internet, the recent and upcoming budget battles which muddy the "stable democratic economy" image of the U.S., and the scenes of people being gunned down in our streets because of our trigger happy society, the U.S. is rapidly marginalizing itself in the world economy.

The former street names remain (as does Cock Lane, perhaps because of its proximity to London's Smithfield meat market), but the latter became Grove Street in London and Grape Lane in York when times and sensibilities got purer, and things and the names of things became in general dangerous and shameful, while the activities and acknowledgment of the body parts continued in a more furtive fashion.

That the C.I.A. has been so unwilling to release more information about its cold war activities is shameful.

"We're trying to have a dialogue about big, important issues," Mr. Mack said, "and those activities are very shameful, and unfortunately have become a big part of the buzz around the summit".

Those risks, she said, run from the low self-esteem that comes from working on the margins of society, to using drugs to cope with a job that can feel shameful, to getting into other activities, whether stripping in a club or prostitution.