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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shame . - noun Alternative form of
shammes .
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Examples
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We do that sort of thing all the time, and it "shames" them not in the slightest.
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I don't think there is any shame in seeing a psychologist, the only thing that pervents a person from going is pride or the idea that the public "shames" the "mentally ill."
nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2003
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From this perspective, passive resistance is effective because it "shames" aggressors.
Notes on 'The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility' 1997
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That had at the time dimly recalled to Maisie the far-away moment of Moddle's great outbreak: there seemed always to be "shames" connected in one way or another with her migrations.
What Maisie Knew Henry James 1879
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Jude has in mind Isa 57: 20. shame -- plural in Greek, "shames" (compare Php 3: 19). wandering stars -- instead of moving on in a regular orbit, as lights to the world, bursting forth on the world like erratic comets, or rather, meteors of fire, with a strange glare, and then doomed to fall back again into the blackness of gloom.
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I'm only 20 and this story kind of shames me for how little I'm able to do around the house.
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I'm only 20 and this story kind of shames me for how little I'm able to do around the house.
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I'm only 20 and this story kind of shames me for how little I'm able to do around the house.
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It still shames hippies and Christians with its ignorant BS.
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It still shames hippies and Christians with its ignorant BS.
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