Word Finder - shame

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Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private.

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The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.

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Something to regret.

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It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.

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Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.

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The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.

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That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.

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A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.

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Expressing sympathy.

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Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!

There's no shame in being poor.

The man's face was red with shame this time.

It's a shame it didn't work out.

The story goes that he died of shame at his failure.

I did not mean to bring shame on you papa.

It's a shame there's only one.

The morning after came without shame or embarrassment.

It's a damn shame what happened to him.

Tears of anger and shame burned her eyes as she swung away from him.

It's a shame I don't have a little princess to lay to rest along its pristine shore.

It is a shame to involve the innocent in such dealings.

He had never felt such shame and self-loathing.  He closed the door to his room, and leaning against it, thought, what kind of monster have I become?

Rather than feel grateful, she felt shame that she'd caused them all such a problem and hadn't been able to take care of herself.

It would be a shame to lose him after all our work.

Slowly the numbness wore off and shame brought tears to her eyes.

You did not bring shame upon me.

We discourse freely without shame of one form of sensuality, and are silent about another.

Damn shame, isn't it?

It would be a shame to lose you already.

After all you've gone through, it's a shame you can't even get a decent night's sleep.

It's a damn shame she's dead but so are a lot of things in life.

She turned her face from him in shame.

It is you who will bear this shame.

If a rich woman sits down with them at table, and they see a poor woman, they shall invite her also to eat with them, and not put her to shame because of the rich one."

If you avoid the shame now you wo n't get the crown later.

Instead his retreating back filled her with shame.

What a shame his father saw only a deformed arm and a financial burden.

They touched the summits of daring and devotion, if they also sank into the deep abysms of shame.

The feature of his school which attracted most attention, perhaps, was his scheme for the teacher's receiving punishment, in certain circumstances, at the hands of an offending pupil, whereby the sense of shame might be quickened in the mind of the errant child.

It is to his shame that he did so little at home.

The mistress of Gebal was no doubt `Ashtart (Astarte in Greek, `Ashtoreth in the Old Testament, pronounced with the vowels of bosheth, " shame "), a name which is obviously connected with the Babylonian Ishtar, and, as used in Phoenician, is practically the equivalent of " goddess."

And therfor the will aught to suffre and lete her husbonde haue the wordes, and to be maister, for that is her worshippe; for it is shame to here striff betwene hem, and in especial before folke.

Then, to her everlasting shame, she burst into tears.

And he understood her feelings, her sufferings, shame, and remorse.

She pushed back the feeling of shame.

Much as she enjoyed watching them eat crow for desert, she knew their shame would be forgotten by suppertime.

It's a shame he isn't hearing this but he'll be tied up in his room all evening recording results of his tests.

The four of us were put to shame in jeans and sweat shirts.

He laughs at me for being unwilling to hurt anyone else, but he says no one should feel shame about who they are.

The ding-dong prompted the pair to look across the bed to shame the other into a bathrobe to answer the door.

She trailed them as directed down the corridor to a battle quarters that put A'Ran's tiny room to shame.

Oh, that's a shame!

Temper abandoned her then, leaving nothing but weakness and shame.

She still had a lot to settle with her father, and hopefully she wouldn't feel the need to hide in shame.

The liberators of Rome thereupon proceeded to plunder the city in a way which brought shame on their cause and disgrace (perhaps not wholly deserved) on the general left in command, Massna.

They would always borrow rather than earn money, and they feel no shame in adopting the former course.

A legend of his surreptitious bestowal of dowries upon the three daughters of an impoverished citizen, who, unable to procure fit marriages for them, was on the point of giving them up to a life of shame, is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret on the Eve of St Nicholas, subsequently transferred to Christmas Day.

The traditional pronunciation (MoX6x), which goes back Fas far as the Septuagint version of Kings, probably means that the old form was perverted by giving it the vowels of bosheth " shame," the contemptuous name for Baal.

Those who are too hungry to wait shall eat at home; and not put to shame those who have no houses (and presumably not enough food either), by bringing their viands to church and selfishly eating them apart.

A first attempt made to being him within the meshes of the law only recoiled with shame upon the head of the accusers.