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/ʃeɪm/ · noun
An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private..
When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.
When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.
Nor can thy ſhame giue phiſicke to my griefe,
And what you do to me is a shame.
Use shame when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shame means An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private..
Common synonyms include dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity.
Possible antonyms include honor, exaltation, dignify, reward.
When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
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