shamefulness

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This was meant to call attention to the shamefulness of this hearing, "if shame was still a thing," as the committee's ranking member Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. put it.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

In the highest-profile examples of our shamefulness, Twitter has disassembled people and careers before the public’s very eyes.

From Time • Mar. 20, 2015

But no sooner is this claim made than some bit of shamefulness materialises.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2012

The inherent shamefulness of overzealous rooting—guilty as charged—causes me to duck out on social obligations, especially when I know the game will be ruined by a fun anchor who's indifferent about sports.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2011

He spoke, with quiet dignity and freedom, of the perversity and shamefulness of the meddling Roman domination, the system of dispensations, and the unmeasured centralization.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von