What is another word for shamefully?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈe͡ɪmfəlɪ] (IPA)

Shamefully is an adverb that is based on the root word shame. It is often used to describe an action or behavior that is disgraceful or dishonorable. Some synonyms for shamefully are: disgracefully, dishonorably, ignominiously, humiliatingly, and degradingly. These words can be used interchangeably with shamefully depending on the context of the sentence. For example: "He was shamefully deceiving his best friend" can be rewritten as "He was disgracefully deceiving his best friend." Adding these synonyms to your vocabulary can help you express yourself more effectively while writing or speaking.

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What are the opposite words for shamefully?

Shamefully, a word used to describe an action that is done with disgrace, can have many different antonyms depending on the context it is used in. Some of the antonyms that can be used for "shamefully " include "proudly," "honorably," "uprightly," "respectfully," "admirably," "nobly," and "dignifiedly." These words showcase positive and confident attributes that are the opposite of feeling shameful. Using a word that is the opposite of "shamefully" can help to bring a positive tone to a conversation and can inspire people to act with pride, signifying that an action can be done with class, dignity, and respect.

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Usage examples for Shamefully

From time to time a rhinoceros started up suddenly before the caravan with a crash and in a rage, but in spite of its impetuous nature and its readiness to attack everything which comes within range of its vision, it ran away shamefully at the sight of the King, whom only the commands of Stas restrained from pursuit.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I will say the girl was shamefully treated,-shamefully!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
"Well," he confessed, "I have certainly been shamefully remiss.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Shamefully

  • I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
    Christopher Gadsden
  • Yet of old the matter seemed even to be a law, and a certain law-giver among them bade the domestic slaves neither to use ointments when dry (i.e. except in bathing) nor to keep youths, giving the free this place of honor, or rather of shamefulness. Yet they, however, did not think the thing shameful, but as being a grand privilege, and one too great for slaves, the Athenian people, the wisest of people, and Solon who is so great among them, permitted it to the free alone. And sundry other books of the philosophers may one see full of this disease. But we do not therefore say that the thing was made lawful, but that they who received this law were pitiable, and objects for many tears. For these are treated in the same way as women that play the whore. Or rather their plight is more miserable. For in the case of the one the intercourse, even if lawless, is yet according to nature: but this is contrary both to law and nature. For even if there were no hell, and no punishment had been threatened, this were worse than any punishment. Yet if you say they found pleasure in it, you tell me what adds to the vengeance. For suppose I were to see a person running naked, with his body all besmeared with mire, and yet not covering himself, but exulting in it, I should not rejoice with him, but should rather bewail that he did not even perceive that he was doing shamefully.
    John Chrysostom
  • We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment. And what do our brothers do? Exactly the opposite! They were slaves in their Diasporas, and suddenly they find themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only a country like Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] can offer. This sudden change has planted despotic tendencies in their hearts, as always happens to former slaves ['eved ki yimlokh – when a slave becomes king – Proverbs 30:22]. They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions. There is no one to stop the flood and put an end to this despicable and dangerous tendency. Our brothers indeed were right when they said that the Arab only respects he who exhibits bravery and courage. But when these people feel that the law is on their rival's side and, even more so, if they are right to think their rival's actions are unjust and oppressive, then, even if they are silent and endlessly reserved, they keep their anger in their hearts. And these people will be revengeful like no other.
    Ahad Ha'am
  • "Who has sent this new serpent into our ruinous garden, already too fouled, too crowded to qualify as any locus of innocence — unless innocence be our age's neutral, our silent passing into the machineries of indifference — something that Kekulé's Serpent had come to — not to destroy, but to define to us the loss of... we had been given certain molecules, certain combinations and not others... we used what we found in Nature, unquestioning, shamefully perhaps — but the Serpent whispered, and new molecules assembled from the debris of the given.... ' Can anyone tell me what else he whispered to us? Come — who knows?"
    Thomas Pynchon
  • Gnawing upon our resentment, we stretch out in an iron cage, Watching the slow passage of days and months. How we despise the insolent crowd outside, Standing there foolishy, with tiny eyes bulging, As they mock the stately spirit of the deep jungle. Here by misfortune, shamefully caged, We are no more than a novel sight to amuse them, some plaything... O stately soul, heroic land, Vast domain where yesteryear we freely roamed, We see you no more. But do you know that during our days of frustration We follow a great dream, letting our souls race to be near you, O formidable jungle of ours!
    Thế Lữ

Related words: ashamedly, shamefulness, shameful, shamelessly

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