Definition of Shamefully

1. Adverb. In a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree. "His grades were disgracefully low"


Definition of Shamefully

1. Adverb. In a shameful manner. ¹

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Definition of Shamefully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamefully

shambolically
shame
shame, shame
shame on you
shame plant
shameable
shameably
shamed
shamefaced
shamefacedly
shamefacedness
shamefast
shamefastly
shamefastness
shameful
shamefully (current term)
shamefulness
shamefulnesses
shameless
shamelessly
shamelessness
shamelessnesses
shamelike
shamen
shamer
shamers
shames
shamest
shameth
shami kebab

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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