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Meaning of ashamingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

In an ashaming manner.

rare

Examples

““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 !”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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