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shamefully, adv.|ˈʃeɪmfʊlɪ|
[f. shameful a. + -ly2.]
1. In a manner that causes shame or disgrace; with indignity; disgracefully.
a1300Cursor M. 28735 Qua mar tas þan he bere might oþere he sal leue it wit-alle or schamfulli þar vnder stand. 1340Ayenb. 181 His [sc. Samson's] yuo þet him deden grinde ate querne ssamuolliche. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. iii. (1869) 138, I shal make thee shamefullich and vileynesliche dye. 1549Compl. Scot. ix. 79 He vas schamefully chaissit furtht of France. 1625Bacon Ess., Of Boldness (Arb.) 519 They haue promised great Matters and failed most shamefully. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 401 ⁋6 The World has seen me shamefully lose that Time to please a fickle Woman. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 160 The allies whom he had shamefully abandoned were accused of persecuting him without a cause. 1879R. Morris Blickl. Hom. Pref. 8 The leaves have been shamefully clipped, I suppose by the binders. 1884Manch. Exam. 20 Feb. 4/7 Ordinary license of speech has seldom been more shamefully exceeded.
2. Shamefacedly, modestly, bashfully, ashamedly. Now rare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalena) 106 Nocht for-þi scho come eftir þame schamfully, & gat in handis cristis fete. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 33 The whiche trybute your sone asked hym shamfully. c1525Sir T. More in More Life (1626) 183 You aske monye, deare Megg, too shamefully & fearefully of your father. 1595–6Carew Excell. Eng. Tongue in Camden's Rem. (1614) 40 We borrow (and that not shamefully [Cott. MS. shamfully]) from the Dutch, the Britaine, the Romane [etc.]. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxxv, Shamefully..they told what he had to do, and then his vacant face became suddenly charged with passion. |