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shamefully

/ˈʃeɪmfəli/ adverbe C2

En français : honteusement

  1. In a shameful manner. · I looked shamefully at the floor.
  2. 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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 76 · B2
I was ruined, shamefully, hopelessly ruined.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · B2
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 50 · C1
“They have treated me shamefully—shamefully.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 153 · C1

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