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shame English

Meaning shame meaning

What does shame mean?
Definitions in simple English

shame

Someone feels shame when they know they did something wrong. The boy felt shame and gave back the candy he had taken.

shame

If you shame someone, you make them feel shame.

shame

a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt (= ignominy) a state of dishonor one mistake brought shame to all his family suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison (= pity) an unfortunate development it's a pity he couldn't do it (= dishonor, dishonour) bring shame or dishonor upon he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime compel through a sense of shame She shamed him into making amends cause to be ashamed surpass or beat by a wide margin

Synonyms shame synonyms

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Topics shame topics

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Conjugation shame conjugation

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shame · verb

Examples shame examples

How do I use shame in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He had not the least shame in telling his story.
Tom is a shame to his family.
Your singing puts professional singers to shame.
Your excellent work puts me to shame.
I think death is preferable to shame.
What a shame!
That big advertisement tower puts our city to shame.
The child puts adults to shame.
Shame on you!
For shame!
He blushed with shame.
He turned red with shame.
It's an awful shame your wife couldn't come.
This new car will put other cars to shame.
He is a shame of the town.

Movie subtitles

Before Princess Cornelia arrives, we must cleanse the shame of our fellow men!
There will be no shame to your family name!
There's no shame in it.
In 1 644, the last Ming emperor hanged himself out of shame.
You old men! Shame on you!
Oh, what a shame.
Be a shame if I went through all the effort of getting you out of prison early just to kill everyone who means something to you.
There's no shame in that, honey.
They're not going to make it back in time for Christmas day. Shame.
It's a shame Pistachio won't get to compete, after all her training and hard work.
In fact, shame is my secret weapon.
I call it a shame, Lady Kriemhild that you let heroes, who could not be beaten in battle, perish in fire's fury!
George, witnessing this ignominy, is overwhelmed with shame and jealousy.
No shame in admitting that.
Full of shame and anxiousness, he turned to his mother's portrait but the image seemed distant and faded.
You look so nice in it, it'd be a shame to spoil it.
You put me to shame before them all.
Shame on you!
Yeah, shame on me!
Oh, the shame of it.
Shame, disgrace, humiliation!
She was only trying to help me. Aye, to bring shame and disgrace upon my house.
I do think it a shame, Mary, to end your story quite so suddenly.
What a cruel shame that any man is made to suffer so.
Shame on you!.
What a shame, and I was just in the mood.
What a shame I missed it.
Think you can put two grown men to shame?
Oh, that's a shame.
Ain't that a shame.
You are now an object of derision and shame to your comrades.
What a shame.
It's a shame!
It's a shame! - Hurry, Josette!
Aye, to bring shame and disgrace upon my house.

News and current affairs

It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
I do know that the world cannot afford to rely again on America's press for its information: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Will it really be necessary for Ukrainians to repeat the Orange Revolution by again gathering in their millions to shame Yanukovych (a twice convicted violent felon before he entered politics) to change course?
Rather than heralding a new era of freedom, the Internet is enabling Chinese authorities to perfect totalitarian control in a way that puts the rulers in George Orwell's 1984 to shame.
In effect, such feelings of national betrayal served to transform China's cult of national shame from a useful tool of government propaganda into a two-edged sword wielded against the government itself.
The weapons of shame and international opprobrium should be mustered to make it impossible for any democratic nation to legitimize a coup in another democratic country.
Have Eastern Europeans no sense of shame?
And Chancellor Angela Merkel has set an example of leadership on migrants that puts all of Eastern Europe's leaders to shame.
Would not monuments to shame be as instructive, if not more so, than monuments to heroism?
So it is a shame that these meetings tend to be so scripted and dull, with so little room for the informality needed to make genuine progress on tough issues involving world peace and prosperity.
Should the public's appropriate reaction be guilt or shame?
Yet shame might be more plausible with regard to US behavior in Iraq.
Shame invites a retreat from the public eye.
To its shame, China allows its political goal of excluding Taiwan from membership in all international organizations to trump even urgent public health concerns.
Indeed, the real leadership in this crisis has come from millions of European citizens, whose everyday acts of compassion have put their craven leaders to shame.
Ours is a guilt culture; theirs a shame culture.
It is a great shame that so many Europeans have steered clear of Iraq with a mixture of self-righteousness and anti-American Schadenfreude.
In fact, Europe's failure is not just a shame, but a historic calamity.
We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
That is a shame, for here was a moment to expose the flaws of most African leaders throughout our tormented history.
Indeed, the European confrontation Merkel initiated (shame on you if you see a connection with the upcoming German elections) has changed the EU forever.
Second, while the shame of New Orleans could never happen in Europe, European social solidarity nonetheless is failing lower-income groups by not sufficiently delivering to them the benefits of economic growth.

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