Example sentences for: shameful

How can you use “shameful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They should recognize that new technology "lays bare throughout the world our most intimate and secret acts--sins which would be quickly forgotten if, for example, the internet didn't render them shameful, obscene and irremovable."

  • In what other language can quite a lot and quite few mean the same thing, as well as loosen and unloosen, ravel and unravel, passive and impassive, flammable and inflammable, shameful and shameless (behavior) and What won't he do next ? and What will he do next ? In what other language are overlook and oversee opposites but a slim chance and a fat chance the same?

  • Although the Senate voted 56 to 43 to consider the motion denouncing Clinton's "shameful, reckless and indefensible" conduct, pro-censure Senators fell short of the two-thirds required.

  • George Stephanopoulos finds the symbolism of Clinton's Tiananmen visit "shameful."

  • He ran for Congress from Massachusetts and, revitalized, served for 18 years--notably helping to overturn the shameful "gag rule" that forbade the reading of anti-slavery petitions on the floor of the House.


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