What is "shameful"

Usage examples of "shameful".

The battle still raged with doubtful violence, and Macrinus might have obtained the victory, had he not betrayed his own cause by a shameful and precipitate flight.

I have only appeared at two theatres, and each time I have been compelled to submit to the scandalous, degrading examination, because everywhere I am thought to have too much the appearance of a girl, and I am admitted only after the shameful test has brought conviction.

Since there was nothing shameful in open lovemaking, Locusta and I were indulging in a bit of it when there was a sudden fearful crash of pottery and metal.

I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.

Russian past, with its shameful heritage of serfdom, or their refusal to acknowledge the achievements of contemporary Russian literature.

And I stood watching her, still and mute, Yet the evil seed in my soul found root, And the sad plant throve, and the sinful fruit Grew ripe in the shameful season.

He lost no seen opportunity, however shameful, to add to his fortune or to amuse himself with the human race, which he regarded with the unpitying contempt characteristic of every cold nature born or risen to success.

I will confess to this consuming carnality and at such a time - it was the untimeliness that made it shameful.

I fully understood what bootlegging even was, only that it was something shameful and criminal and suddenly connected to us.

Venetians as the first authors of the war against Constantinople, and considers only as a kuma epi kumati, the arrival and shameful offers of the royal exile.

Halting on the verge of the water, it furtively picks up crabs as if it were a trespasser, conscious of a shameful or wicked deed and fearful of detection.

English were deserted in the battle, from the cowardice or treachery of their three leaders, all of them men of Danish race, Frena, Frithegist, and Godwin, who gave the example of a shameful flight to the troops under their command.

This was how I spent those not quite innocent holidays in cathedral cities, making opportunities for myself which now seemed to me equally shameful.

Now these holidays appeared to me in a morbid light, and I felt secretive, shameful.

The lamest part of the whole shameful matter was the reason suggested by his enemies for his destruction of the law, to wit: that he did it to favor Christian, because Christian was his cousin!