adjective
definition
Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
definition
Giving offense.
Examples of shameful in a Sentence
Expelled from Italy, he only came to France to buy a shameful peace.
If it were not so unprincipled and shameful it would be laughable and pathetic.
James concluded a shameful treaty, by which, in exchange for being left undisturbed in Aragon and promised possession of Sardinia and Corsica, he gave up Sicily to the Church, for whom it was to be held by the Angevins (1295).
I do n't see anything particularly shameful about honestly admitting to innovation, actually.
These instructions were communicated to the French, though not to the allies, Louis putting Dunkirk as security into possession of England, and the shameful spectacle was witnessed of the desertion by the English troops of their allies almost on the battlefield.
I have made my footsteps unbecoming by walking in shameful deeds.
At last, when, in 1689, on the most frivolous pretext, Louis poured into southern Germany armies which were guilty of shameful outrages, a number of princes came forward and aided the emperor.
In his broadsheets Rostopchin impressed on them that to leave Moscow was shameful.
For your age, is it not shameful on your part to indulge in such a sacrilegious act of stretching your legs toward God?
We should be grateful in this shameful episode that we managed to get anything more than the standard tribunal fee.
We are increasing transport funding by 45 percent over the next three years to turn around the shameful neglect of the last Government.
For Lukacs, who knew a great deal about Hegel, his religious views are a shameful secret.
Luckily the law did n't get involved but a crowd did gather to watch our rather shameful descent from our heavenly nest.
But you are fitted for society, and it is shameful to have you exiled from it.
Yet centuries later Bristol was once again embroiled in that shameful trade.
In the porch stand the village stocks, a stark reminder of shameful days past.
For the truth is that scrapping MPH was an utterly shameful decision.
To damage these views for no good reason would be quite shameful.
It is both extraordinary and shameful that the police have chosen to press charges.
He occupied the post of surveyor of the royal works for fifty years, but by a shameful cabal was dismissed from this office a few years before his death He died in 1723, and is buried under the choir of St Paul's; on a tablet over the inner north doorway is the well-known epitaph - Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
It was a shameful episode and one that was fully deserving of political and media approbation.
I have a right beer belly at the moment, real shameful!
The shameful capitulation of the eclectics caused much anger in our ranks.
Such godless people ' God has given over, ' the Apostle says, ' to shameful lusts.
Aberdeen Town Council had its own shameful record of witchcraft persecutions.
In a shameful display of partisan politicking taking precedence over international security considerations, the US Senate failed to ratify the accord in 1999.
I don't see anything particularly shameful about honestly admitting to innovation, actually.
But the Government's proposed new deals over the car purchase, unfortunately welcomed by union leaders like Tony Woodley, are absolutely shameful.
Luckily the law didn't get involved but a crowd did gather to watch our rather shameful descent from our heavenly nest.
No, the only truly shameful thing you can do in this city is to wear a Rangers shirt in a Celtic pub.
If they were captured they would try to commit suicide because it was considered shameful.
With the war in ex-Yugoslavia, Tito's name has become almost shameful to mention.
That something shameful was his yesterday's conversation with Captain Ramballe.
But the Government 's proposed new deals over the car purchase, unfortunately welcomed by union leaders like Tony Woodley, are absolutely shameful.
We must say it rather bluntly that Meherally 's deceptive methodology is shameful to say the least.
Tired of waiting It is shameful to make families wait so long for inquest verdicts, says Eric Allison.
It is so shameful to hear her fluency in English, which is her third language.
With the war in ex-Yugoslavia, Tito 's name has become almost shameful to mention.
It 's almost unbelievable to think that in our shameful history, we were the ones who allowed this to happen.
Luckily, the paparazzi were there to capture the whole shameful event for the cameras, taunting Brown, and saying, "Don't they know you're Bobby Brown?"
To most, the announcement seems like yet another shameful play for the spotlight by Tequila, who just days after her supposed fiancee's death, did a photo shoot, prancing around her yard, smiling and laughing.
In 1757, after defeating the Austrians at Prague, he was himself defeated by them at Kolin; and by the shameful convention of Closter-Seven, he was freely exposed to the attack of the French.
This shameful discomfiture quickened all the suspicion and jealousy fermenting in France.
Her health began to break down, and it appears to be nearly certain that towards the end she suffered from hysteria of a shameful kind.
The beginning of this shameful "subsidy policy" was the treaty of Fontainebleau, 1661, by a secret paragraph of which Sweden, in exchange for a considerable sum of money, undertook to support the French candidate on the first vacancy of the Polish throne.
Pilate fulfilled his pledge by giving them the man of their choice, and Jesus, whom he had vainly hoped to release on a satisfactory pretext, he now condemned to the shameful punishments of scourging and crucifixion; for the cross, as Jesus had foreseen, was the inevitable fate of a Jewish pretender to sovereignty.
Penal codes depended rather upon shorter and more cruel methods; the scaffold was in constant use, with all manner of physical pain, torture before and after sentence, shameful exposure, hideous mutilation, exile, selling into bondage as slaves.
In accordance with his former action on all questions of religious toleration he opposed the shameful Five Mile Act of 1665.
These shameful deeds made the islanders regard it as a duty to avenge their wrongs on any white men they could entice upon their shores.
The death penalty was commuted into a punishment worse because more shameful than death.