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Example sentences for "shamefully"

Lexicographically close words:
shamefacedly; shamefacedness; shamefast; shameful; shamefull; shameless; shamelesse; shamelessly; shamelessness; shames
  1. I said under my breath, as I confronted this miserable figure--so shamefully insignificant for the vicarious emotions which it had been housing.

  2. Truth is also deceived by it, and shamefully slandered.

  3. Oxenstiern addressed himself to the Elector of Saxony; but he shamefully abandoned the Swedish cause, to negociate for a separate peace with the Emperor at Pirna.

  4. The citizens of Prague, thus shamefully abandoned by their defenders, had long taken their resolution; all that they had to do was to secure their properties and liberties by an advantageous capitulation.

  5. But the Emperor has wronged me most shamefully in the person of my ambassadors.

  6. Mitz and family had come purring into the room in the early morning, as usual, but had been shamefully neglected.

  7. I am willing to allow the colony great merit for having produced a Washington; but they have been shamefully duped by a Dunmore.

  8. At each avenue leading into the hellish centers of the city should stand a lost woman, peering into the eyes and hearts of each girl who is creeping silently and shamefully to the vice dens.

  9. The sellers of these drugs must of necessity be known to the police who see the constant throng of hundreds of unfortunates sneaking shamefully into the places to procure the poisons that bring pleasant dreams, and even unconsciousness.

  10. By this time the governor of Senora, with the elite of the corps of the army under his orders, having advanced to his help, was decoyed into the rebels' camp under some peaceful pretext, and shamefully murdered.

  11. Had I found it so easy to obtain a home and quiet, that both were to be so recklessly and shamefully abandoned?

  12. He was forced against his inclination to marry the dashing Clotilde de Langevy, who eloped so shamefully with one of the Mousquetaires.

  13. But in the light of what I know now, of how Lynn lied to me, and how shamefully he treated that poor creature he married, it seems impossible I could ever have been in love, actually in love with such a man.

  14. The Times" was shamefully hoaxed on this date.

  15. Allegations, the truth of which was denied, were made that the inhabitants of Happisburgh shamefully neglected the signals of distress made by the Ranger.

  16. Prince Charles of Courland came to Warsaw, and asked me to dine with him at Prince Poninski's, the same that became so notorious, and was afterwards proscribed and shamefully dishonoured.

  17. For nearly two years the Willing Horse had stood up indomitably under the strain, while a nation, mainly willing, but shamefully unready, was getting into condition.

  18. This promise, and similar ones made to other groups of the Vaudois at Pra del Torre, Permian, near Pramol, and other retired spots in the neighbourhood of La Torre, were all shamefully disregarded.

  19. Corporal Raymond of the 17th Regiment after being taken and Stripped was shamefully insulted and Abused by Gen'l Dehightler, seized by ye Hair of his head, thrown on the ground, etc.

  20. In respect to definitions, too, most of these writers are shamefully inaccurate, or deficient.

  21. The very examples which have hitherto been given to prove that do may be a substitute for other verbs, are none of them in point, and all of them have been constantly and shamefully misinterpreted.

  22. And herein I apprehend myself now to suffer wrongfully, being slanderously reported, falsely accused, shamefully and despitefully used, and hated without a cause.

  23. He had been shamefully deceived and cheated, and justice he would have!

  24. On the contrary, my fear is, that I am miserably and shamefully deficient in that quality as regards action.

  25. Upon arrival at Commonstone it became at once evident that Lady Mary had shamefully libelled the Easter ball.

  26. You have neglected me shamefully the whole of the evening, you know.

  27. Is it not law that you could loose this marriage-- Nay, that he loosed it shamefully years ago By a hard blow that bruised your innocent cheek, Dishonouring you to lesser women and chiefs?

  28. This district has been shamefully neglected!

  29. There was no rent to pay, and only very small rates, for everyone knows that country houses are shamefully under-assessed.

  30. I should be shamefully ungrateful to a place of peculiar enjoyment if I forbore to mention the Library at Harrow.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shamefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; awfully; badly; dreadfully; flagrantly; grossly; horribly; horridly; infamously; outrageously; terribly