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shameful

(= ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands — Rachel Carson an ignominious retreat inglorious defeat an opprobrious monument to human greed a shameful display of cowardice (= scandalous, shocking) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation scandalous behavior the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt — Thackeray the most shocking book of its time

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Your conduct is absolutely shameful.
The invasion of other countries is a shameful action.
He got a shameful title.
How shameful!
Your behaviour was shameful.
An honourable death is better than a shameful life.
An honorable death is better than a shameful life.
His secret was a shameful one.
His secret was a shameful one, and he could not bring himself to divulge it.
It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.
I have lived many shameful events during my life.
Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!
Lying is shameful.
It's not shameful to be silent when you have nothing to say.
The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
Work isn't shameful.
Shameful!

Movie subtitles

How shameful!
That's fine thanks I get for bringing him home. and not leaving him in this shameful condition.
While you will be your meal I go with my boat front of the house It is shameful!
That's the most shameful confession.
Isn't that shameful?
That's what's so shameful about it all.
Absolutely shameful!
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with traitorous gifts won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming-virtuous Queen.
Did he say anything shameful to you?
Shameful?
When the history of this sun-baked Siberia is written, these shameful words will live in infamy.
I think that you have never done a shameful thing. nor ever will.
It's true, I lost all my dignity, for a wretched, illicit love, a shameful love.
Shameful. Mr. Robinson will answer for it.
That's fine thanks I get for bringing him home and not leaving him in this shameful condition.
Shameful, ignominious. Defeat that set back for 20 years the cause of reform in the U. S forever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane.
There's nothing shameful or frightening about it.
I hope that that shameful episode in your life is past.
It's shameful!
What's shameful is a lowly Barrigni striking a Deburau, treacherously, in public!
It's shameful! Just shameful!
It is shameful what you ask.
Maybe. The most shameful form of theft!
And in exchange for this shameful favor, you'd be ready to.
How shameful! Do you still feel like saying things about gaining fame like some heretical devil? you consider yourself a human being?
How shameful for them as they prepared to get my 18,000 francs!
So either we wait for a shameful death or go into battle for the fatherland, for freedom and honor, for the life of our nation!
To deceive a friend-- How shameful!
That's shameful, isn't it, for a doctor not to know?
That's shameful.
Call me shameful for this if you want to, John. but the real shame would be in hiding what I feel.
About whom does your shameful tongue say such things?

News and current affairs

The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful.
A shameful legacy of President Menem's government in the 1990s was that it prevented the investigation and prosecution of serious improprieties, corruption, illegal arms sales, and major terrorist acts.
That gross imbalance in representation is a shameful betrayal of Ukraine's sovereignty.
Righteous Eagle : The US uttered a few shameful words of apology and our government released 24 pigs..
That would be a shameful legacy - one that could be avoided by re-thinking climate policy.
The international community's shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world.
Democracies make shameful mistakes, but they eventually correct them, or at least apologize for them.
The second male behavior is a patricidal imperative that is perhaps the most shameful and atavistic of the primal impulses that still lurk in some archaic part of our brains.
In many places, torture chambers are the rules of the game, not the grotesque and shameful mistakes of ill-supervised troops.
If similarly shameful disclosures multiply, as I believe they will, let us at least hope that official apologies and condemnations may finally give way to wider, more genuine accountability and reform.
It is hard to imagine a more shameful deal.
It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations met for a shameful discussion that has been virtually airbrushed from our memory.
To be sure, Britain's Neville Chamberlain and France's Edouard Daladier signed a shameful treaty with Hitler and Mussolini in Munich.
The international community's response to the massacres was shameful.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful. For not just Ibrahim, but the values that the EU professes to uphold, have been on trial in Egypt, and they have been mocked by the Mubarak's regime idea of justice.
With that vote, the international community began to eradicate the shameful indifference that accompanied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, and too many similar catastrophes.

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