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Shamefulness

noun
1.
Unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor.  Synonyms: disgracefulness, ignominiousness.






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"Shamefulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of her castle building was but seldom interrupted by any thought of the shamefulness of her behaviour to him. That did not matter much! She could so easily make up for all he had suffered! Her selfishness closed her eyes to her own falsehood. Had she meant it truly she would have been right both for him and for herself. To have ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

... the multitude by becoming a gladiator or a tragedian. Such were the spectacles at which Nero loved to gaze through his emerald eye-glass. And worse things than these—things indescribable, unutterable. Infamous mythologies were enacted, in which women must play their part in torments of shamefulness more intolerable than death. A St. Peter must hang upon the cross in the Pincian gardens, as a real Laureolus upon the stage. A Christian boy must be the Icarus, and a Christian man the Scaevola or the Hercules or the Orpheus of the amphitheatre; and ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various



Words linked to "Shamefulness" :   shameful, ignominiousness, unworthiness, scandalousness



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