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shamefulness

/sheym-fuhl/US // ˈʃeɪm fəl //UK // (ˈʃeɪmfʊl) //

可耻性,耻辱性,耻辱感,羞耻心

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing shame: shameful behavior.
    • : disgraceful or scandalous: shameful treatment.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouninfamy

Examples

  • Imagine being in a therapy session and disclosing the most shameful, hurtful thing that was ever done to you and then have that publicized to the community during an SVP proceeding.

  • Your comments are extremely offensive, shameful and dangerous.

  • It’s shameful that a judge has to force the Treasury to do their job.

  • To use our parks as his own personal playground is shameful, and a slap in the face to the American people.

  • “It is shameful that an institution that discriminates against LGBT Americans received nearly $1 million in taxpayer funds,” Kyle Herrig, president of government watchdog Accountable.

  • Good for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet Fashion.

  • This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

  • What other shameful secrets might a search of his Internet history turn up unrelated to his months swooning over ISIS?

  • The complete and utter lack of compassion or a clue exhibited by these people is shameful in the extreme.

  • This country has a long, violent and shameful history of our system being set up to value white people over people of color.

  • And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.

  • It would be perfectly shameful if some San Francisco girl snapped him up—and you know what they are.

  • Pale as a ghost, her fingers intertwined in a convulsive grip, she knelt by her cousin's bed and told her shameful story.

  • Her descendants have been exempted from the taille (poll tax)—a mean and shameful recompense!

  • Is there any violent and shameful passion in existence to which we cannot apply the same language?