adverb
definition
In a shameful manner.
example
I looked shamefully at the floor.
definition
Used to express discontent with a situation or occurrence.
example
The hospital was shamefully underequipped.
Examples of shamefully in a Sentence
Elizabeth, so shamefully her inferior in personal loyalty, fidelity and gratitude, was as clearly her superior on the one all-important point of patriotism.
The terms of the capitulation were shamefully violated by the Turks, who put to death the governor Marcantonio Bragadino with cruel torments.
His guardians, Cardinal Bak6cz and Count George of Brandenburg-Anspach, shamefully neglected him, squandered the royal revenues and distracted the whole kingdom with their endless dissensions.
Oh, what a terrible thing is fear, and how shamefully I yielded to it!
It will be observed that the legality of the trial, in so far as the jurors were not properly qualified and the law of treason was shamefully strained, was denied in the act of William & Mary which annulled the attainder.
Since Flinders Petrie began, the general level of research has gradually risen, and, while much is shamefully bad and destructive, there is a certain proportion that fully realizes the requirements of scientific archaeology.
The records of the town show that he was burned in effigy as a Huguenot and as shamefully immoral (1554).
Shamefully, it took me almost thirty years from the time I first listened to English sacred music to attend my first evensong.
Why can't all operas be like Giordano's shamefully neglected barnstormer?
So shamefully did they neglect their duty that when, at the age of seventeen, Charles XI.
She neglected it in peace, allowed it to be shamefully administered in war, and could never be made to understand that it was not in her power to improvise generals out of her favourites.
If the aim of the Russians consisted in cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his marshals--and that aim was not merely frustrated but all attempts to attain it were most shamefully baffled--then this last period of the campaign is quite rightly considered by the French to be a series of victories, and quite wrongly considered victorious by Russian historians.
There were those who railed against the balls, claiming that they were a negative foreign influence that encouraged immorality and shamefully allowed "commoners" to consort with the aristocracy.
From drug busts to domestic violence calls, COPS is shamefully entertaining for anyone who has ever dreamed of busting a rebel against the law.
Education was shamefully neglected, the masses being left in almost heathen ignorance - and this, too, at a time when the upper classes were greedily appropriating the ripe fruits of the Renaissance and when, to use the words of a contemporary, there were "more Latinists in Poland than there used to be in Latium."
The rebels under Ranulf shamefully defeated the king at Nocera on the 24th of July 1132.