Shamefully

Examples

• I have behaved very shamefully, very ungenerously, very ungratefully to her, said Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He has been most shamefully abused, and most unjustly and most basely driven away, and I am the cause of it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You did behave very shamefully. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And when you used him shamefully, I took his part and loved him--There! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Acknowledged that you were afraid, and backed shamefully out? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What a noble heart that man has, she thought, and how shamefully that woman plays with it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am very angry indeed, and I have been shamefully used. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was ruined, shamefully, hopelessly ruined. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Has treated him most shamefully, dear Pa! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You used to submit to Mr. Casaubon quite shamefully: I think you would have given up ever coming to see me if he had asked you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How all this will terminate, I know not; but I had rather die, than return shamefully,--my purpose unfulfilled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The Duke of Beaufort treated you shamefully. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And he now shamefully fled, feeling, if he stayed another minute, that he would have been made to look foolish in the presence of Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Frank Churchill's confession of having behaved shamefully was the first thing to call for more than a word in passing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I behaved shamefully. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Is mine less hard to bear or is it harder to bear, when my whole living was in it and has been thus shamefully sucked away? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I don't know why I have shamefully neglected my dear Ladies. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Typist: Melville