shame
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He’s a solemn figure whose body language speaks of shame and humiliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The shame in this story was never his, and it was never ours.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Surely, it will put the Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the Alien movies to shame.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Crystal Palace manager Pierre Sage said he felt "shame" at the Eagles' performance during their 5-0 thrashing by Brighton and did not know whether he would be given time to save his job.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s a shame there was no memorial service, but it’s nice, in a way. Now we all have our own last images of him.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The second pilot meets their passengers’ fear with hysteria, shrieking, outburst—that pilot shames their passengers, saying, “I can’t do my job because of YOU.”
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
He says it "shames the men and women who gave their lives in Iraq".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
I treat many adults who have severe eating disorders partly as a result of growing up in a society that overvalues thinness, promotes dieting for weight loss, and shames people who are overweight or obese.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
“That is a disgrace. It outrages and shames me deeply,” Scholz said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
I have spent ten years loving Lesbos as an inheritance, a thing I own from a distance, and the smoke on my screen has shamed that love into something more useful.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
It found there was no single perpetrator of the practice in Britain, but "government decisions shaped the environment in which unmarried mothers were often shamed and coerced into having their children put up for adoption".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
“I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Pratt, who played a heel on TV, isn’t easily shamed in his own right.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
It shamed Matthias to say the words, but he spoke them anyway.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
And it would not catastrophize fetal harm, which lands as shaming rather than a warning.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
He said Arday had faced "an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse", adding that he was a victim of "a pernicious public shaming that other people in his position simply wouldn't have faced".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
My boss told me the truth without shaming me, and showed me how to do the same for others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Most of all, there is a lot of shame and shaming associated with people who go into debt or become overwhelmed by their bills.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
The Dothraki .would respect him more if he looked less a beggar, she hoped, and per-haps he would forgive her for shaming him that day in the grass.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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