Dictionary entry

Shamelessness

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Definition

shame /ʃeÇm/ n ၁။ [U] အရွက္။ ရွက္စိတ္။ feel shame at having told a lie ❍ hang one's head in shame ❍ To my shame (ie I feel shame that) I never thanked him for his kindness. ၂။ [U] ရွက္စိတ္။ အရွက္။ How could you do such a thing? Have you no shame? ❍ She is completely without shame. ၃။ [U] အရွက္။ bring shame on sb/oneself. ၄။ a shame [sing] ( derog infml ) ဝမ္းနည္းစရာ။ It's a crying shame that we didn't buy the house when we had the money. ❍ What a shame you didn't win. ❍ Isn't it a shame that the rain spoiled our picnic? v (က) ရွက္သည္။ အရွက္ရသည္။ He was shamed by how much more work the others had done. (ခ) အရွက္ရ ေစသည္။ You've shamed your family. ❏ put sb/sth to shame [ IDM ] သိမ္ငယ္မိေစသည္။ Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame. ❏ shameful /-fl/ adj ရွက္ဖြယ္။ ရွက္စရာ။ shameful conduct/deceit. ❏ shamefully /-fǝli/ adv ရွက္ဖြယ္လိလိ။ ရွက္စရာေကာင္း ေလာက္ေအာင္။ be shamefully treated. shamefulness n [U] ❏ shame sb into doing sth [ PHRV ] အရွက္တရားရၿပီး …ေစသည္။ shame sb into apologizing. ❏ shameless adj ( derog ) အရွက္မရိွ။ အရွက္ကင္းမဲ့ေသာ။ shameless behaviour ❍ act in a shameless way. ❏ shamelessly adv အရွက္မရိွ။ shamelessness n [U] ❏ shame on you [ IDM ] ရွက္ၿပီးလဲေသဖို႔ေကာင္းတယ္။ How could you treat her so badly? Shame on you! ❏ shaming adj အရွက္ရေသာ။ အရွက္ကြဲေသာ။ The experience was deeply shaming for us all.

Examples

  1. It seems a shame to waste all this food.
  2. It was a shame that you couldn’t come with us.
  3. [a great/crying/terrible shame] : It would have been a crying shame if we had lost the game.
  4. [shame about] : It was a nice idea. Shame about the way it was done.
  5. He speaks about his affair without shame.
  6. [bow/hang your head in shame] : The people who let this happen should hang their heads in shame.
  7. Has he no shame?
  8. They accused her of bringing shame and disgrace on the family.
  9. There is no shame in failing.
  10. [to someone’s shame] : To their shame
  11. they were proved wrong.