Definition of shame

"shame" in the noun sense

1. shame

a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt

2. shame, disgrace, ignominy

a state of dishonor

"one mistake brought shame to all his family"

"suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"

3. pity, shame

an unfortunate development

"it's a pity he couldn't do it"

"shame" in the verb sense

1. dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame

bring shame or dishonor upon

"he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime"

2. shame

compel through a sense of shame

"She shamed him into making amends"

3. shame

cause to be ashamed

4. shame

surpass or beat by a wide margin

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Quotations for shame

Loss embraceth shame. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Loyalty feels no shame. [ Motto ]

Public reproof hardens shame. [ Proverb ]

Think no shame of your craft. [ German Proverb ]

Natural things are without shame.

When pride rides, shame lacqueys. [ Proverb ]

Past all shame, so past all truth. [ William Shakespeare ]

I'll print it, and shame the fools. [ Pope ]

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. [ John Dryden ]

Speak the truth and shame the devil. [ Proverb ]

He that despises shame wants a bridle. [ Proverb ]

Pride goes before, shame follows after. [ Proverb ]

He that has no shame has no conscience. [ Proverb ]

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. [ George Chapman ]

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

The public have neither shame nor gratitude. [ Hazlitt ]

Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh cooks shame. [ Proverb ]

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain,
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. [ Cowper ]

Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. [ Alexander Pope ]

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is no shame to follow the better precedent. [ Ben Jonson ]

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. [ Pope ]

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. [ Sydney Smith ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

It is a shame to steal, but a worse to carry home. [ Proverb ]

The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame. [ Proverb ]

All fame is dangerous: good, brings Envy; bad, shame. [ Proverb ]

When pride is on the saddle, shame is on the crupper. [ Proverb ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

Glory built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt. [ Cowper ]

It is no shame to yield to him that we must not oppose. [ Proverb ]

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. [ Proverb ]

Whose god is their belly and whose glory is their shame. [ Bible ]

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. [ Roger Ascham ]

Fame is the shame of immortality, and is itself a shadow. [ Young ]

Better be dead and forgotten than living in shame and dishonor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

He that cannot conceal his own shame will not conceal another's. [ Proverb ]

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. [ Horace ]

We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. [ William Shakespeare ]

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. [ George Sand ]

If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

There is no shame in having led a wild life, but in not breaking it off. [ Horace ]

Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. [ Louis the Eleventh ]

Reason if we do not live by it, will serve to increase our shame and guilt. [ Proverb ]

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. [ Bible ]

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. [ Aaron Hill ]

Study carefully the character of him you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame. [ Horace ]

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears. [ Bishop Hall ]

There can be no shame in accepting orders from those who have themselves learned to obey. [ W. E. Forster ]

Vanity, shame, and, above all, temperament, often make the valor of men, and the virtue of women. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]

Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. [ Talleyrand ]

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. [ Plutarch ]

Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]

Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. [ Johnson ]

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]

No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress. [ Hugh R. Haweis ]

He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. [ Fuller ]

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popularity is shame: if thou be once up, beware: from fame to infamy is a beaten road. [ Quarles ]

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]

What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

shame in Scrabble®

The word shame is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters shame:

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shame in Words With Friends™

The word shame is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters shame:

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Words within the letters of shame

2 letter words in shame (9 words)

3 letter words in shame (9 words)

4 letter words in shame (9 words)

5 letter words in shame (1 word)

Word Growth involving shame

Shorter words in shame

me

am ham sham

ha ham sham

Longer words containing shame

outshame outshamed

outshame outshames

shameable

shameably

shamed ashamed ashamedly unashamedly

shamed ashamed ashamedness unashamedness

shamed ashamed unashamed unashamedly

shamed ashamed unashamed unashamedness

shamed outshamed

shamed unshamed

shamefaced shamefacedly

shamefaced shamefacedness

shameful shamefully

shameful shamefulness

shameless shamelessly

shameless shamelessness

shames outshames

shameworthier

shameworthiest

shameworthy