Example sentences for: shameful

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

  • 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.


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