ashamingly

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 !”

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