shamefulness


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Synonyms for shamefulness

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Synonyms for shamefulness

unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor

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It's a direct line from slavery to the treatment of black suspects today, and we need to acknowledge the shamefulness of that history.
The shamefulness of hair is mild compared to what is exposed in Corps Etranger, a piece that was perhaps the most memorable work in a now famous exhibition from 1995, 'Rites of Passage'.
Thus, the shamefulness of claiming disadvantage 'sticks' to the feminist killjoy and to those she attaches to.
As Chamizo Dominguez and Sanchez Benedito (2005: 12) argue, "in our society, the last remaining taboo seems to be sex." Hence, we may risk forwarding the assumption that the linguistic restrictions imposed on people communicating within the sphere of sex should have triggered the formation of a large number of lexical items to veil the shamefulness, embarrassment or, even, contamination associated with the more direct appellations.
It maintained that contrary to "all warlike, princely, manlike or Christian examples in any wars," Philip sought to take the queen's life "sundry secret ways by secret murder." (65) Or, as the French version stated, "non par armes & par les actions ordinaries de la guerre mais clandestinement & par assassinates recerchez en diuerses sortes." (66) Francis Bacon likewise elaborated on the shamefulness of such slayings in a tract penned about the Lopez case, describing such a secret and suborned attempt to kill as "not only against all Christianity and religion, but against nature, the law of nations, the honour of arms, the civil law, the rules of morality and policy; finally, to be the most condemned, barbarous and ferine act that can be imagined." (67)
With this understanding, her intrusive thoughts of hurting animals and her shamefulness about herself were reduced.
By resorting to the Chinese traditional virtue of showing respect for elders, the observer tries to evoke not only the shamefulness of the wife, but also arouse the negative emotion on her of all the people on the spot as well as the audience of the show.
So when in a battle a hero defeats his rival with spear, arrow or rope, he provides high shamefulness to his rival.
For instance, there are many short words in Afrikaans that indicate a certain kind of tentativeness (words like mos, maar, nou)--words that also may indicate shamefulness.
This of course remains consistent with the taboos that exist around the topic and "condition." These taboos have been created by misunderstanding, miseducation, and misinterpretation of women's menstruation as shamefulness and unclean.
Such laughable but readily identifiable shamefulness at a natural process doesn't surprise Haslam.