Shameful

Examples

• It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My things were indeed in shameful disorder, murmured Helen to me, in a low voice: I intended to have arranged them, but I forgot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There would be no shameful thing she had not experienced. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The third contented herself with wondering 'what ladies was made of'; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of 'Shameful! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is so unworthy of you, this setting on of such a shameful scout. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Well, you follow out your own ideas, and won't give in to mine when I wish you to leave off this shameful labour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Then the peasant who stood beside me said, 'This is shameful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She had to sacrifice her sinful and shameful affections; no more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I will not hear you say such shameful words! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There have been a meeting to-night where he have been spoken of in the same shameful way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was shameful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• How good it was to be really shameful! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They have had their shameful rights, these Nobles, in the modesty and virtue of our sisters, many years, but we have had good girls among us. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I _shall_ have a chance, I do! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Oh shameful waste of life and time! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Life indeed may be ignominious, shameful to the soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If it would be good to her, I am sure it would be evil to himself; a very shameful and degrading connexion. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Another shameful, barren school-week, mere routine and mechanical activity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Oh, shameful, shameful ending, after such unseemly boasting! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But could not you punish her some other way,--some way that would be less shameful? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His secret was a shameful one, and he could not bring himself to divulge it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• How shameful! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She was free, when she knew everything, and no dark shameful things were denied her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This is very true, said she, at least as far as relates to me, which was all that was meantand it is very shameful. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was unbearable, shameful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Melville