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Definition of Shamefully
1. Adverb. In a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree. "His grades were disgracefully low"
Partainyms: Discreditable, Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Dishonorable, Ignominious, Inglorious, Shameful
Definition of Shamefully
1. Adverb. In a shameful manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shamefully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamefully
Literary usage of Shamefully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"HOW THAT FAMOUS NAVIGATOR, NOAH, WAS shamefully NICKNAMED ; AND HOW HE COMMITTED
AN UNPARDONABLE ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"32 For he shall be delivered up unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and
shamefully en- 33 treated, and spit upon : and they shall scourge and kill him: ..."
3. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"But the king was wroth ; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers,
them shamefully, and killed 8 and burned their eity. ..."
4. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... intend an insult j but you do not know, or have forgotten, that I have the
honour to be the friend of a respectable man who is shamefully defamed and ..."
5. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam (1839)
"... in order to amass treasures there, attempts to plunder a rich temple in Elymais,
but is shamefully repulsed. Hearing that his armies had been defeated ..."
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