Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shameful
IPA transcription: [ʃ'eɪmfəl]
Pronunciations of shameful
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
    Meaning: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
Usage examples
  • Mitya, how shameful it is!
  • The abuse master gets for your sake is quite shameful.
  • Claudius was the first defender of this shameful practice."
  • Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste."
  • And naught was left King Alfred But shameful tears of rage, In the island in the river In the end of all his age.
  • 'Not so!' cried the sultan, 'but a shameful death you shall die!' And the princess fell on her knees, and begged she might die with him.
  • "To carry her home with us, that she may die a shameful death; but if we return without her, we must die the death she should have died."
  • The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
  • And at the last battle that he did was slain Sir Nanowne le Petite, the which he put to a shameful death in despite of King Arthur, for he was drawn limb-meal.
  • The doctor was simply howled out of the country. It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Octavia E. Butler, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Giver, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ayn Rand, License CC BY-SA 4.0