Words similar to shameful
Example sentences for: shameful
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According to medieval canon law, "private and shameful acts," the sorts of things a penitent whispers to his priest, lie outside the jurisdiction of public tribunals.
Words or letters or numbers on your clothes set you apart as some sort of human object, sacred like St. Anthony or shameful like Hester Prynne or maybe useful like a team member.
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.
In his fine earlier book, Bad Blood , James Jones exposed one of American medicine's most shameful episodes: the Tuskegee experiment, in which doctors enlisted a group of black men with syphilis and, without their knowledge or consent, withheld treatment so as to observe the natural progress of the disease.
What we've learned from this search is that Clinton had a shameful affair with an intern and covered it up--but also that the truth wasn't worth the search.