I.
noun
1 feeling that you have lost the respect of others
ADJECTIVE
▪ deep
▪ secret
▪
This is the secret ~ I have carried around for decades.
▪ public
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He risked public ~ and possible imprisonment.
▪
All she wanted was to escape so that she would not have to face this public ~.
▪ national ( esp. BrE )
▪
It is a national ~ that our prisons serve as mental institutions.
VERB + SHAME
▪ be filled with , feel
▪ bring , cause
▪
His arrest for stealing brought ~ on his family.
▪ die of ( figurative )
▪
I nearly died of ~!
PREPOSITION
▪ from ~
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She wept from the ~ of having let everyone down.
▪ in ~
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She shut her eyes in ~.
▪ to your ~
▪
To my ~, I didn't tell Robert about the party.
▪
To my everlasting ~, I failed her when she needed me most.
▪ without ~
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He had cried noisily and without ~ at the news of Esther's death.
▪ with ~
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She blushed with ~.
▪ ~ about , ~ at
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She felt a flush of ~ at what she'd said.
▪ ~ for
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Do you feel no ~ for what you've done?
▪ ~ in
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There's no ~ in making an honest living.
▪ ~ on
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Shame on you for doubting me!
▪ ~ over
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You feel absolutely no ~ over what you did, do you?
PHRASES
▪ bow your head in ~ , hang your head in ~
▪ a feeling of ~ , a sense of ~
▪
He was being held by two security guards, his head bowed in ~.
2 a shame sth that makes you feel disappointed
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful ( esp. BrE ), great , real , terrible
▪ crying , damn , damned ( all informal )
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about
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It's a terrible ~ about Steve losing his job.
PHRASES
▪ a bit of a ~ ( esp. BrE ), rather a ~ ( esp. BrE ), such a ~ , what a ~
▪
What a ~ you can't come!
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ publicly
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The people who did this all deserve to be publicly ~d.
PREPOSITION
▪ into
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An outcry from customers has ~d the company into lowering its prices.