ashamingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Where you been, my dear roommate to-night, after supper? Did you have daily exchange of stories with your girl?” / “No, Yeah, little bit.” He hesitated, but not ashamingly, and he looked feeling good."
- "The entire historic jigsaw puzzle had too many pieces that didn’t fit; too confusing for us to understand or ashamingly disgraceful for us to want to understand. We wanted the Vietnam veteran to politely go away — to get lost."
- "“Germans only” is an ashamingly frequent requirement. But most of Frau Heiermeier’s customers are foreign students."
- "The system of measures applied against alcoholism in Hungary […] Restricted unemployment aid or allowance (often ashamingly low), nothing more"
- "Ashamingly, the only quantum fields that we fully understand to date in four dimensions are free quantum fields on four-dimensional Minkowski space. Formulated more provocatively: In four dimensions we only understand an (infinite) collection of uncoupled harmonic oscillators on Minkowski space !"
Etymology
From ashaming + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more ashamingly (comparative)
most ashamingly (superlative)