shame
Example Sentences
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"So, it's just a shame that trust is now broken."
From BBC
Boone is responsible for tremendous environmental harm but remains unrepentant, even as other apparitions materialize seeking to shame him into confessing his sins.
It took so long to get the hybrid; it’d be a shame to blow it up.
“The fact that we’re not mining it today is a shame,” he said.
If you have two friends who’ve been friends 20 or 40 years, and they break, and the rupture isn’t healed, you feel toward them embarrassment and a kind of shame.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
