shamefully
/ˈʃeɪmfəli/ adverb C2- In a shameful manner. · I looked shamefully at the floor.
- Used to express discontent with a situation or occurrence. · The hospital was shamefully underequipped.
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The Goat, envying the Ass on account of his greater abundance of food, said, “How shamefully you are treated: at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy burdens;” and he further advised him to pretend to be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.
I was ruined, shamefully, hopelessly ruined.
Holmes, when I heard a shocking story of how he had turned a cat loose in an aviary, and I was so horrified at his brutal cruelty that I would have nothing more to do with him.’ She rummaged in a bureau, and presently she produced a photograph of a woman, shamefully defaced and mutilated with a knife.
“They have treated me shamefully—shamefully.
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