Adjective : shameful behavior. ,shameful treatment. From Dictionary.com.
The prefix fi - adds the idea of shamefulness to what follows, thus producing this easily understandable result, synonymous with the more usual Esperanto term bordel (o). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference
I hope this shamefulness is exposed. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)] Reference
Rather a life of poverty than one of shamefulness and dishonour. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
No outpouring of legalism or sophistry can mask the shamefulness of this episode. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I argued with him, and tried to convince him of the shamefulness of such a course of action. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
Even without taking the current economic climate into consideration, this crime approaches brutalizing dogs in shamefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: Michael Vick's Second Crime Almost as Bad as his First] Reference
The shamefulness of the remarks by Senator Murray is her absolute failure to understand the world she describes with her silly stories. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Patty "Osama Mama" Murray video] Reference
Another option, given the shamefulness of atheism, is you could be. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Shower us with bravery and pride and cleanse us of our shamefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Citizen] Reference
Khayyam in order to illustrate the shamefulness of the indolent life. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
There are various reasons for this, I think, of varying shamefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
On the contrary, words cannot convey the whole horror and shamefulness of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference
"Time" in such reproving tones that they hung their heads in shamefulness and desisted. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
"I told him not to come back," he repeated; "it would only lead to -- to shamefulness.". From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
It brought home to His judges the ridiculousness and the shamefulness of their position. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion] Reference
He introduced the law, he signified the shamefulness of the thing, he brought forward the other. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Thyrsis could have no idea of the shamefulness of her position, the humiliations she had to face. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Pilgrimage] Reference
Not wanting to bow (to whatever) makes you a victim of humiliation, you're open to shamefulness and guilt. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
When the whole story was extracted, in all its shamefulness, from Lamb's own lips, the master expressed his disgust. From Wordnik.com. [The Crofton Boys] Reference
And then the shamefulness of what I was doing came rushing through the fog, and my words sped up to stay ahead of it. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Britt] Reference
Such teaching is so horrible and abominable that it is hard to find words to express one's sense of its shamefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
Mothe watched his leering face he understood Commines 'outspoken contempt of this old man unashamed of his shamefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Justice of the King] Reference
The pleasure of her castle building was but seldom interrupted by any thought of the shamefulness of her behaviour to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
The lies, corruption, incompetence, deceit and shamefulness are all on daily view for all to see - except our media watchdogs. From Wordnik.com. [marconews.com Stories] Reference
Infamous mythologies were enacted, in which women must play their part in torments of shamefulness more intolerable than death. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03] Reference
Naturally, the trolls are absorbed in their busywork, serenely oblivious to the shamefulness inherent in their disreputable procedures. From Wordnik.com. [Pajamas Media] Reference
Nothing that the Federal penitentiary might hold in store for him could equal the black, blind shamefulness of yesterday; he knew that. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference
It is merely forcing what should be always the most dignified of human relationships into the shamefulness of concealment and furtiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family] Reference
Kingston whining about the shamefulness of the Senate’s trap of inactivity is just soooo precious!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Frist Ducks Responsibility For Unfinished Spending Bills, Blames ‘Systemic Flaws In America’s Processes’] Reference
Impossible to overstate the shamefulness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » About Time] Reference
"Most of these pictures have the three elements of drunkenness, shamefulness and pain. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Tar Heel RSS] Reference
Oh, I admit the shamefulness of my unmanly state!. From Wordnik.com. [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference
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