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ashamingly

ashamingly adverb: in an ashaming manner.

Adverb

ashamingly (comparative more ashamingly, superlative most ashamingly)

  1. (rare) In an ashaming manner.
    • “Where you been, my dear roommate to-night, after supper? Did you have daily exchange of stories with your girl?” / “No, Yeah, little bit.” He hesitated, but not ashamingly, and he looked feeling good.1924 February, Richard Shiokawa, “I Said That College is a Treasure Island, Why?”, in Hal A. Oliver, editor, The Trinity Archive, volume XXXVI, number 5, Durham, N.C.: The Senior Class of Trinity...
    • The entire historic jigsaw puzzle had too many pieces that didn’t fit; too confusing for us to understand or ashamingly disgraceful for us to want to understand. We wanted the Vietnam veteran to politely go away — to get lost.1981 April 22, “Belated ‘welcome home’ to Vietnam veterans”, in The Romulus Roman, volume 96, number 2, Wayne, Mich.: Associated Newspapers, Inc., page A-14, column 1

Examples of ashamingly in a sentence

  • “Germans only” is an ashamingly frequent requirement.1989 October 29 [1989 October 13], Dirk Kurbjuweit, “Student life: It’s still not too bad — but only if you can find a place to live”, in...
  • The system of measures applied against alcoholism in Hungary […] Restricted unemployment aid or allowance (often ashamingly low), nothing more1997, Dharam P. Agarwal, Béla Buda, Andrew E. Czeizel, H. Werner Goedde, “Economic Aspects of Alcohol Control Policies in Hungary”, in...
  • Ashamingly, the only quantum fields that we fully understand to date in four dimensions are free quantum fields on four-dimensional Minkowski space.2001 October 5, T[homas] Thiemann, “Why Quantum Gravity in the 21st Century ?”, in Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General...

Forms of ashamingly

comparativemore ashamingly
superlativemost ashamingly

Origin of ashamingly

From ashaming + -ly.

Questions about ashamingly

What does ashamingly mean?
Ashamingly means in an ashaming manner.
How do you use ashamingly in a sentence?
“Germans only” is an ashamingly frequent requirement.
What part of speech is ashamingly?
Ashamingly is an adverb.

Words near ashamingly in the dictionary

  1. ashamed
  2. ashamedly
  3. ashamedness
  4. ashames
  5. ashaming
  6. ashamingly
  7. ashamnu
  8. Ashango
  9. ashanite
  10. Ashantee
  11. Ashantees

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