The crime of Ovid was incontestably that of having seen something shameful in the family of Octavius: Cur aliquid vidi, cur noxia lumina feci?
In the shameful troubles excited by the refusal of sacraments, the simple presidial of Nantes condemned the bishop of that city to pay a fine of six thousand francs for having refused the communion to those who demanded it.
He, ere yet The shameful needless bonds upon the wrists Of those four gentle women were made fast, Said: "Saul, what evil have these women done That they deserve roughness like this?
I knew not what I did when so I crucified Thee afresh through shameful pride.
You are birds of ill-omen, the whole of you; you invent shameful stories to stir up strife between your master and us.
For him, as for certain Parisian bankers, politics spread a mantle of popularity over his shameful dishonesty.
All things bespoke a shamefulwant of care,--the seal set by mere life-possessors on the ancient glories that they possess.
Theirs are carefully watched and preserved, while mine is in a shameful state.
Might I not have gone on in committing bad actions, like many other unhappy men, till I had been guilty of some notorious crime, which might have brought me to a shameful end?
It is a wanton and shameful thing for a man to liken himself to a woman, by suffering his hair to grow, and curling and parting it in a seam, as is the manner of too many.
It was this, that men of rank employed themselves in the culture of the fields; whereas now it is left to wretches loaded with fetters, who carry in their countenances the shameful evidence of their slavery.
The tale is one of an evil time, When souls were fettered and thought was crime, And heresy's whisper above its breath Meant shameful scourging and bonds and death!
He must die or madden for the want of rest, rather than fall asleep on his post, for if he does, his punishment is certain and shameful death.
I told you that I should be pushed into a shameful grave!
I had but one strong, clear idea, namely, that I must keep awake at all costs, or bring shameful death upon myself and disgrace upon my family.
In discussing these sad and shameful events, we wish it distinctly understood that we do not arraign the whole people nor even the entire Democratic party of the States in which they have occurred.
We regret that a faithful and honest discussion of this subject compels a reference to the darkest, bloodiest, and most shameful chapter of our political history.
But Strahinya narrated to them the shameful conduct of his wife, and the story made Youg Bogdan so incensed that he commanded his sons to pierce their sister with their swords.
He loved the friend of his childhood, but he could not condone his shameful conduct.
The nations of today should refuse to play the shameful role to which England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia sank during the French Revolution.
Caedwalla, still so young but now a king, thought it shameful that he should rule no more than the empire God had given him, and he was filled with a longing to cross the sea and to conquer new land.
They sat together at the window, and meanwhile in the inner end of the room a lonely lady made shameful love.
As he walked behind her, the remembrance would intrude of that betraying letter, and he had the notion that perhaps she somehow knew he shared her shameful secret.
That would be a shamefulthing in a Baron's daughter," said she.
Ever since the evening when he allowed the shamefulsecret he had discovered to escape him in his brother's presence, he had felt that the last ties to his kindred were broken.
There was certainly some malice, some spite, somethingshameful in it.
It was Grey who advanced the first suggestion, his assurance no whit abated by the shameful thing that had befallen, by the cowardice which he had betrayed.
Monsieur Jerome Thuillier has held himself impassible before these shameful imputations because justice and truth are patient, and he bided his time to scotch the reptile.
The government by this time were ashamed of a man whose almost infamous habits and shameful business transactions, carried on in company with a former banker, named Claparon, led him at last into well-deserved public contempt.
I will stand in the presence of God; my actions shall be my prayers; I will never be false in word or deed; never will I do a base or shameful thing.
Let us condemn him with a shameful death: thus will he be known by his words.
A reason was found at the same time for the shameful death of the Messiah.
That it was shameful to have had more courage against their own countrymen than against their enemies, and to have dreaded slavery more at home than abroad.
But ambition of the sovereignty, the bane of their grandfather, interrupted these designs, and thence arose a shameful quarrel from a beginning sufficiently amicable.
When the Æquans had merely showed their dastardly army, they were routed by a shameful flight, without any great honour to the consul; therefore a triumph is refused.
But do thou, father of gods and men, keep back the enemy at least from hence, dispel the terror of the Romans, and stop their shameful flight.
That these mine eyes should see The sovereign of a strong and noble race, Now in the very flower and prime of life, Brought low, and made a bounden slave Unto a shameful and a stubborn sickness!
There has been a shameful neglect of the dead shown, and indecent haste in ransacking the place in search of the gold and other treasures known to be hidden.
Whilst other troops exhibited a shameful defection, the “Royal Scots,” with unshaken constancy, adhered to the desperate fortunes of their infatuated King.
During the previous reign our country had groaned under a shameful vassalage to France.
Even the laws are perverted to thisshameful purpose.
She haughtily replied, "If my cowardly subjects are willing to bear shameful fetters, I cannot endure even the thought of dependence upon any foreign power.
Pray for those who are honestly striving to rid the land of this shameful curse.
But very few have much desire to right the shameful wrong.
Once more he adjures her to deliver herself from the "shameful remains" of a passion which has taken too deep root.
He exhorts her to strive, to be more firm in her resolutions, to "break those shameful chains which bind you to the flesh.
How shamefulthat there should be no local memorial of this incident, as beautiful and touching a passage as can be cited out of any human life!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shameful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
