Crossword clues for shamefulness
shamefulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shameful \Shame"ful\, a.
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Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.
His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat.
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Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.
--Spenser.Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming; degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous. [1913 Webster] -- Shame"ful*ly, adv. -- Shame"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being shameful. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being shameful.
WordNet
n. unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor [syn: disgracefulness, ignominiousness]
Usage examples of "shamefulness".
Complaints have been waged about your causing a fistfight between two men in this town, one of whom is married - and is, to add to the shamefulness of the incident - your own brother-in-law.
But, now, he would die ere he would allow that fear to surface, to show its shamefulness to this affable young officer and his troopers, all of whom had immediately and naturally accepted him as a warrior like themselves.
If it had not been for that suffering, which would have had nothing shameful about it for someone who did not suffer as well from shamefulness, and if it had not been for the loss of the letters, the rain would not have bothered Fernanda, because, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it had been raining.
For it is on account of the shamefulness of that act, and because the original sin due to the guilt of our first parents is inherited by means of that act.