shameful

«shameful» in Mova's school dictionary: Causing shame; so bad or wrong that people should feel… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (shameful, more shameful, most shameful); adverb «shamefully»

meaning for a pupil

1) Causing shame; so bad or wrong that people should feel ashamed of it. tree →

2) Disgraceful; shocking in a bad way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In ethics lessons and stories: shameful behaviour, a shameful secret. In news: «a shameful decision». It judges an action, not just a feeling. Phrases: «a shameful thing», «it's shameful that», «shameful behaviour», «a shameful secret».

examples

• It's shameful to laugh at someone who has fallen over. tree →
• Cheating in the test was a shameful thing to do. tree →
• The way they treated the new girl was shameful. tree →
• He kept the shameful secret for years. tree →
• It is shameful that the park is full of litter. tree →
• Leaving the dog without water all day was shameful. tree →
• What a shameful day for me! tree →

note

Do not confuse with «ashamed» (feeling shame: «I'm ashamed») and «shameless» (feeling no shame when you should). Shameful describes the act; ashamed describes the person.

In the corpora

• That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women.
• Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shameful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.