Crossword clues for shamed
shamed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shame \Shame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Shaming.]
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To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him.
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To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
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To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor.
--Ps. xiv. 6.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shame)
WordNet
adj. showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced]
suffering shame [syn: discredited, disgraced, dishonored]
Usage examples of "shamed".
Indian muslin, which she had hastily thrown on, veiled rather than concealed her snowy breast, which would have shamed the works of Praxiteles.
Her words, and the pathetic voice with which they were uttered, should have shamed him, but they only put him into a furious rage.
By custom another samurai always assisted at a seppuku, standing slightly behind the kneeling man, to decapitate him with a single stroke before the agony became unbearable and uncontrollable and so shamed the man at the supreme moment of his life.
Blackthorne noticed this and it all became a nightmare, everything slowed and fogged, and he desperately wanted to empty himself and wipe the sweat off his face and bow, but he was sure that the captain would hardly bow back, perhaps not even politely and never as an equal, so he would be shamed before all of them.
The Anjin-san worshiped her, but he never shamed you with her, or she with him.
Then your wife said she would commit seppuku at once without my permission before she would allow you to be shamed in that way.
I am shamed to say that I thought first of my purse with my traveling money in it, and I gripped it with my hand beneath my shirt.
And why else would you hide from your family at every meal if not because your gluttony shamed you?
I know how you shamed my name there, drinking with peasants and whores!
The experience of washing my own body shamed away any triumph I might have felt in taking the deer.
He had done things that shamed him, though nothing so foul as what I had done.
Had I shamed myself deeply last night by having relations with a Speck, or had I simply had a wonderful, extravagant sexual experience?
I had acted with the best of intentions, and yet I still felt as shamed as if I had deliberately been disrespectful to her.
I fear he may die, and I should be shamed if there was no one at his side when it happened.
Some were criminals, some had shamed or ruined their family names, some were very unpopular with the Satrap himself.