How to Use shameful in a Sentence

shameful

adjective

• There is no excuse for such shameful behavior.
• But as a vestige of that shameful era, the noose lives on.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 23 June 2020
• And not getting to the end shouldn’t be shameful, Egan said.
  — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• The calves of a woman’s legs were shameful things and not to be exposed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
• It’s not just part of a shameful past, but a living part of our present.
  — Sarah Paiji Yoo, Marie Claire, 4 Aug. 2021
• Even so, a shameful whiff of idleness clings to the writer.
  — Nathan Wolff, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• No one has made trickin’ sound so cool, yet sound so shameful.
  — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2024
• Humphrey sometimes shook his head at the shameful litany.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• To give life sentences to two 19-year-old boys is shameful.
  — NBC News, 5 May 2021
• The lack of support for new parents in the United States is shameful.
  — SELF, 20 Aug. 2019
• There’s only one school in the nation that’s shameful enough to have not paid their head coach.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2017
• This is shameful, and where are those of the left condemning such a display of hate?
  — baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
• Your pastor’s comments alone are – shameful, to say the least.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2020
• Your pastor’s comments alone are — shameful, to say the least.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2020
• The shortage of women on the country charts is shameful.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Allowing me to spend the last five months sitting with a ton of stress was shameful.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
• There was a period of time where this was very shameful.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020
• But now death had become a shameful thing, to be banished from sight.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• For too long it’s felt like something shameful to talk about, but that is changing.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
• That the 60-year-old Hale is only now getting a chance to manage is shameful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• There is nothing wrong or shameful about a boy who wants to do ballet.
  — Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 23 Aug. 2019
• Opening the Arctic to drilling as part of this tax plan is simply shameful.
  — Susmita Baral, Teen Vogue, 13 Dec. 2017
• His death and the government’s handling of it are shameful.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Feb. 2020
• Sunday’s piece ought to have made for painful, if not shameful, viewing for board members of the Big Three.
  — Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
• The refusal to add the IRGC to the terror blacklist is shameful but not surprising.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2023
• The shameful chapter cast a long shadow over Corbin, which city leaders have tried to shake for decades.
  — courier-journal.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The board tabled the item without discussion, which Marois called shameful.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• Lo and behold, this year’s prizes ended a shameful streak: Batiste is the first Black Album of the Year winner since 2008.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• The school opened in 1879, starting a dark and shameful period in U.S. history known as the Indian boarding school era.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
• Welcome to the era of the pimple patch, where blemishes aren’t shameful secrets to conceal but just part of the human experience.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025