SHAMEFUL in a Sentence

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So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHAMEFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shameful
 a.  (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
 a.  giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But the important point is that there was trickery connected with the legacy, and shameful trickery at that.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  He caught himself in all sorts of 'shameful' thoughts, as though he were driven on by a devil mocking him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  To borrow from Anton Antonitch seemed to me monstrous and shameful.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
4  "It's not at all from friendship," declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
5  In his broadsheets Rostopchin impressed on them that to leave Moscow was shameful.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V
6  His head was aching, the clothes in which he had slept without undressing felt uncomfortable on his body, and his mind had a dim consciousness of something shameful he had done the day before.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
7  That something shameful was his yesterday's conversation with Captain Ramballe.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
8  "Yes, he's a poor little fellow," said Denisov, who evidently saw nothing shameful in this reminder.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
9  So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
10  She remembered the ball, remembered Vronsky and his face of slavish adoration, remembered all her conduct with him: there was nothing shameful.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
11  It was one of those things which one knows but which one can never speak of even to oneself, so terrible and shameful would it be to be mistaken.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
12  Most terrible of all had been his ludicrous, shameful position when Alexey Alexandrovitch had pulled his hands away from his humiliated face.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
13  Bad as this might be, it was anyway better than a rupture, which would put her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of everything he cared for.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
14  There was something shameful, effeminate, Capuan, as he called it to himself, in his present mode of life.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 15
15  When they came back to him, he studiously drove them away, regarding them as shameful and girlish, below the dignity of a boy and a schoolboy.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Your bad behavior brings shame on the whole school.
17  When his teacher told his parents about his behavior, he felt great shame.
18  It did not take long to shame the boy into a change of behavior.
19  I would die of shame if she ever found out.
20  Her energy and enthusiasm puts the rest of us to shame.
21  He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.
22  His arrest for stealing brought shame on his family.
23  Never let fear or shame keep you from celebrating the unique people that you are.
24  She hung her head in shame.
25  I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
26  To my shame I refused to listen to her side of the story.
27  The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
28  No man learns but by pain or shame.
29  I will return, find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
30  There is no shame in wanting to be successful.