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Definition: Shame |
ShameNoun1. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt. 2. A state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison". 3. An unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it". Verb1. Bring dishonor upon. 2. Compel through a sense of shame; "She shamed him into making amends". 3. Cause to be ashamed. 4. Surpass or beat by a wide margin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An emotional attitude excited by realization of a shortcoming or impropriety. (references) |
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Shame (or embarrassment) is a social condition and a form of social control consisting of an emotional state and a set of behaviors, caused by the consciousness or awareness or having acted inappropriately. Shame may lead to depression or suicide.According to the late anthropologist Ruth Benedict, Cultures may be classified by their emphasis of using either shame or guilt to socially regulate the activities of their members. Asian cultures, as for example China and Japan, are considered shame cultures. European and modern American cultures, as for example the United States, are considered guilt cultures. Traditional Japanese society and Ancient Greek society are sometimes said to be "shame-based" rather than "guilt-based" in that the social consequences of "getting caught" are seen as more important than the individual feelings or experiences of the agent.
However no culture exclusively uses one of these internalized feelings. Anthropologists today reject this mode of classifying cultures.
Blushing is when your face turns red, usually as a result of embarrassment.
See also Modesty.
Shame is also the name of a 1983 novel by Salman Rushdie. For more information see Shame (novel).
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Shame was Salman Rushdie's third novel. It is a short novel (300 pages). The theme of the novel is Pakistan. Rushdie wrote this after his Midnight's Children, whose theme was India.Shame is a novel about Pakistan and about the people who ruled Pakistan. The basic idea was to portray the lives of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Zia-ul-Haq and their relationship. The more central theme is the violence that is born out of shame. There are characters that actually 'stand' for 'shame' and 'shamelessness' - Sufiya Zinobia and Omar Khayyam respectively. There is magical realism and there is the usual magical writing that characterises Rushdie's novels.
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Synonyms: ShameSynonyms: ignominy (n), pity (n), attaint (v), disgrace (v), dishonor (v), dishonour (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: honor (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness; turpitude; (improbity); infamy. |
Purity | Noun: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity. |
Wrong | Noun: wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se; unreasonableness, grievance; shame. |
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Screenplays | It's a shame about raisins (Benny & Joon; writing credit: Barry Berman) I couldn't look at him. He might look right through the fear and the shame, right through to the truth (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Damn shame what they did to the dog. (Coming to America; writing credit: Barry W. Blaustein, David Sheffield) Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) That is such a shame because I have had it with men. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) | |
Lyrics | It's a shame we have to play these games (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell) 'n' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) It was a shame how he carried on (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) 'cause your greed sold me out in shame, mmhmm (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA) | |
Clever | Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. (references; author: Mark Twain) Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Olga's House of Shame (1964) World Without Shame (1962) Harvest of Shame (1960) Passport to Shame (1958) The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) | |
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 | Condoman Says: : Don't be shame be game-Use Frenchies!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | National shame. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two contact sheets showing individual views of two men, one is reading from "The shame of the cities" by Lincoln Steffens, the other man appears to be listening, they both converse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pollution -- it's a crying shame. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "1965 VW Kharman Ghia (low down" by Aaron Gardner Commentary: "Last picture of this 60's classic, shame about the road work stuff in the background, but I didn't get to choose the location." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Balfour | The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. |
Benjamin Franklin | Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. |
| Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. | |
Francois Rabelais | Speak the truth and shame the Devil. |
Frantois Rabelais | Tell the truth and shame the devil. |
John Heywood | For pryde goeth before and shame cometh after. |
John Lyly | Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. |
Seneca | Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. |
William Hazlitt | The public have neither shame or gratitude. |
William Shakespeare | While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Leave shame to her. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It was a shame to let you be turned away like that |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | For they said, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Overwhelmed with shame even more than with despair, she left the shop, and returned to her room |
Cymon and Iphigenia | John Dryden | Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Let no worldly shame hold you back |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Peace, peace, for shame, if not for charity |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The shame of their ignorance was too great for the children |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Feelings of rejection, shame, or depression are common. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Particularly in the more modern, more service-oriented sectors of the economy, purchase by foreigners is becoming less of a badge of shame than in years past. (references) |
Human Rights | India | Although evidence is lacking, a higher incidence of abuse appears credible, given other evidence of abusive behavior by police and the likelihood that many rapes go unreported due to a sense of shame and a fear of retribution among victims. (references) |
Yemen | The law requires male members of the families of female prisoners to arrange their release; however, female prisoners regularly are held in jail past the expiration of their sentences because their male relatives refuse to authorize their release due to the shame associated with their alleged behavior. (references) | |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | However, a victim's own parents often urge withdrawal of a complaint because of the shame that attaches to the entire family. (references) |
Belarus | A law against rape exists; however, most women do not report rape due to shame or fear that the police will blame the victim. (references) | |
Netherlands | Fewer than 10 percent of victims of domestic violence report to the police; most cases are not reported out of fear, shame, or guilt. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? Scopas Brune |
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Donald Rumsfeld | That's different. I enjoy being challenged. I enjoy working with wonderful people, and I do. If we were at this point in history, I'm trying to think if I were not involved in any way at all, I would feel that's a shame. |
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| "Shame" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.04% of the time. "Shame" is used about 1,895 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.04% | 1,801 | 4,698 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.38% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.53% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,895 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "shame". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Barabbas | N/A | Biblical | Son of shame |
| Ishbosheth | N/A | Biblical | A man of shame |
| Jabesh | N/A | Biblical | Shame |
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Expressions using "shame": ad to one's shame be it spoken ♦ be lost to shame ♦ bloody shame ♦ blush for shame ♦ blush with shame ♦ bring shame on ♦ bring shame upon ♦ cry shame ♦ cry shame at ♦ cry shame upon ♦ cry shame upon smb. ♦ crying shame ♦ crying shame a ♦ dead to shame ♦ devoid of shame ♦ false shame ♦ feel shame at ♦ For shame ♦ for shame to him! ♦ for shame to you! ♦ Guilt and shame ♦ have no sense of shame ♦ lost to shame ♦ put smb. to shame ♦ put to shame ♦ red with shame ♦ sense of shame ♦ shame making ♦ shame on you ♦ shame on you! ♦ shame plant ♦ shame upon you! ♦ take a shame ♦ To do one shame ♦ To put to shame. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shame": shame-faced, shame-faced expression, shame-facedly, shame-free, Shame-proof. | |
Ending with "shame": Cover-shame, no-shame. | |
Containing "shame": christ-this-is-so-delicious-it-seems-a-shame-to-go-on-about-it-but-i-feel-it-is-my-duty. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skaamte (abashment, disgrace), beskaamtheid (disgrace). (various references) | |
Albanian | turpërim (blush, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, mortification), turp të kesh, turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude), çnderim (dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضح (compromise, disclose, disgrace, expose, exposure, show up, unmask), مصدر خزي, هوان, حياء (bashfulness, modesty, shyness, timidity), عار خزي (dishonor, dishonour, infamy), عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), خزي (contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, odium, opprobrium), خجل (abash, bashfulness, be ashamed, blush, dash, diffident, efface oneself, make shy, mantle, redden, shy, shyness, timidity), جلب العار, الخجل (abashment), إرتباك (awkwardness, bewilderment, confusion, constraint, disruption, distraction, embarrassment, foolishness, involvement, morass, mystification, nonplus, perplexity, pink, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self consciousness, shyness, spot, tangle, uneasiness), أخزى (degrade, discountenance, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срамя, срамота, срам (degradation, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal), свян, неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, mischief, nuisance, packet, plague, rub, scrape, spot, trouble, vexation), засрамвам (abash, dash, discountenance), безобразие (crying shame, nuisance), позоря (asperse, be disgrace to, defame, discredit, disgrace, mire), позор (attaint, contumely, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, stigma). (various references) | |
Chinese | 羞辱, 羞恥 , 羞 (America, ashamed, bashful, beautiful, shy), 恥 (disgrace). (various references) | |
Czech | stydìt se (be ashamed, blush), styï se (be ashamed), stud, zostudit, zahanbit (abash, humble), ostuda (discredit, disgrace, ignominy, reproach, scandal, shocker), hanba (boo, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, reproach, stain). (various references) | |
Danish | skam (disgrace). (various references) | |
Dutch | foei. (various references) | |
Esperanto | honto (abashment), fi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fý. (various references) | |
Farsi | ننگین کردن (Abuse, Dishonor(Ur)), ننگ (Dishonor(Ur), Infamy, Opprobrium, Reproach, Scandal, Stain), عار, خجلت (Bash), خجالت دادن (Abash, Embarrass), ازرم (Modesty, Pudency), شرمنده کردن (Abash), شرمساری , شرم (Pudency). (various references) | |
Finnish | häpeä (disgrace, dishonour, for shame!). (various references) | |
French | honte. (various references) | |
Frisian | skamte (disgrace). (various references) | |
German | Scham (private parts, pudenda, vulva), Schande (disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonour, disrepute, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium, shocker). (various references) | |
Greek | ντροπή (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie-fie, reproach). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כלימה (affront, disgrace, insult, opprobrium, reproach), בשת (disgrace, indemnity, pudenda), בשת פנים (disappointment, dishonour, shamefacedness, shyness, timidity), בוז (contempt, disdain, disgrace, sneer), בושה (disgrace, ignominy), גנאי (disgrace, disrepute, notoriety, obloquy, opprobrium), בזיון (contempt, disgrace, ignominy), דראון (aversion, disgrace, ignominy, odium), להוביש, חרפה (disgrace, dishonour, flagrancy, ignominy, reproach), קלון (disgrace, infamy, prostitution), קיקלון (disgrace), שמצה (defamation, derision, disgrace), לביש (affront, disgrace, wearable), להכלים (affront, insult, put to shame), גנוי (censure, deprecation, disapproval, nag, odium, twit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szégyen (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, disrepute, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rasa malu, mempermalukan (discredit), malu (bashful, mortification, shy), keaiban (disgrace, humiliation), fadihat (disgrace, ignominy). (various references) | |
Irish | nÚire. (various references) | |
Italian | vergogna (bashfulness, disgrace, fie, reproach), pudore (decency, modesty), disonore (disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonour, disrepute, opprobrium, reproach). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羞恥心 (shyness), 恥辱 (disgrace, insult), 恥 (embarrassment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうちしん (shyness), きょうしゅく (sorry to trouble, tetanus, very kind of you), ふめいよ (disgrace, dishonor), ふめんぼく (disgrace), ふめんもく (disgrace), つらよごし (disgrace), あかはじ, はずかしめ (being raped, disgrace), はじ (embarrassment, grasp, grip, hold), ちじょく (disgrace, insult). (various references) | |
Korean | 수치. (various references) | |
Manx | nearaghey (abash, disgrace), naaraghey, cur nearey er (cheap morally, dishonour). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bergwensa (disgrace). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ameshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vergonha (black eye, crying shame a, disgrace, indignity, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, stigma). (various references) | |
Romanian | scandal (affray, breach, breeze, flare up, fray, fuss, hubbub, noise, row, rumpus, scandal, scene, shindy), ruşine (abashment, abomination, bashfulness, blot, confusion, contempt, disgrace, infamy, reproach, scandal, shyness, stain), ruşina (abash, confuse, crush), pudoare (bashfulness, chastity, decency, delicacy), pãcate, ocarã (abashment, abuse, disgrace, insult), necinsti (blemish, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate), necinste (bad faith, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, foulness, improbity, insult, knavery, knavishness), face de ruşine (abash, put to shame), decãdere (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, decline, descent, ebb, fall), ce ruşine (fie for shame, for shame, what a scandal), batjocori (abuse, bemock, deride, disdain, flout, rape, satirize, scoff, scorn, taunt, violate). (various references) | |
Russian | срам, стыдно (ashamed, for shame, shame on you), стыд;позор, стыд, позор (attaint, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shamefulness, stigma, taint). (various references) | |
Scottish | nàire (bashfulness, ignominy; feeling of shame). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sramota (attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, outrage). (various references) | |
Spanish | vergüenza (abashment, bashfulness, disgrace, embarrassment, ignominy, odium, shamefacedness, shamefulness), uf (phew, whew). (various references) | |
Swedish | skam (discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium), blygsel (abashment, confusion, disgrace). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kahihiyán (disgrace), hiyâ (disgrace). (various references) | |
Thai | ปิดหน้าด้วยความละอาย (hide one's face in shame). (various references) | |
Turkish | yazık etmek, yazık (alack, alas, dear, it's a pity, pity, what a pity), yüzkarası (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, obloquy), utanma (being ashamed, blush, confusion, embarrassment), utandırmak (abash, bring disgrace on smb., confound, disgrace, embarrass, humiliate, make smb. feel small, mortify, put smb. to confusion, put smb. to shame, put to the blush, scandalize, wither), utanç (deception, disgrace, opprobrium, shock), utanılacak şey, tecâvüz etmek (abuse, aggress, assault, attack, break into, encroach, encroach on, entrench upon, impinge, infringe, interfere with, intrude, outrage, overstep, rape, ravish, trench on, trench upon, trespass, violate), namusunu kirletmek (dishonor, dishonour, pollute, soil), mahçup etmek (bring into contempt, make smb. feel small, overwhelm, put smb. to confusion, put smb. to shame, scandalize), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), ayip (disgrace), ayıp etmek, ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references) | |
Turkmen | utanз, uяat, masgarзylyk (disgrace), ejap, biabraяlyk, .Turkme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | соромити (abash, affront), сором (abashment, dishonor, dishonour), ганьба (blot, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, smirch, spot, stain), ганьбити (abuse, animadvert, asperse, attaint, besmirch, blaspheme, defame, disgrace, inveigh, reproach, scandalize, soil, spot, stain, tarnish, tongue, vilify, vituperate, wrong). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thẹn, sự tủi thẹn điều xấu hổ, sự ngượng (confusedness), sự hổ thẹn (disgrace, disgracefulness), mối nhục. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwarthruddo (disgrace), gwarthrudd (disgrace), gwarth (disgrace, reproach), gwaradwyddo (asperse, reproach), gwaradwydd (reproach), cywilyddio (abash, be ashamed), cywilydd (shyness), cardd (disgrace), achlod (disgrace). (various references) | |
Yucatec | su'tal (disgrace). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | te. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | confusio, confusione, confusionem, confusiones, confusionis, dedecoris, dedecus, flagitii, flagitium, foeditatem, foeditatis, obprobria, obprobrii, obprobriis, obprobrio, obprobrium, phui, pudore, rubor, stupris, stupro, stuprum, turpitudinem, turpitudo, verecundia, verecundiae, verecundiam. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | scand, scomu. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Gunh andreia stefanoV tw andri authV wsper de en xulw skwlhx outwV andra apollusin gunh kakopoioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mulier diligens corona viro suo et putredo in ossibus eius quae confusione res dignas gerit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A bisi womman a croune is to hir man; and stinc in the bones of hir, that berth thingus wrthi confusioun. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka babaye nga may katakus maoy purong-purong sa iyang bana; Apan kadtong nagahimo ug pagpakaulaw maingon sa pagkamadunoton sa iyang mga bukog. |
| Croatian | Kreposna je žena vijenac mužu svojemu, a sramotna mu je kao gnjilež u kostima. |
| Danish | En duelig Kvinde er sin Ægtemands Krone, en dårlig er som Edder i hans Ben. |
| Dutch | Een kloeke huisvrouw is een kroon haars heren; maar die beschaamt maakt, is als verrotting in zijn beenderen. |
| Finnish | Kelpo vaimo on puolisonsa kruunu, mutta kunnoton on kuin mätä hänen luissansa. |
| French | Une femme vertueuse est la couronne de son mari, Mais celle qui fait honte est comme la carie dans ses os. |
| German | Ein tugendsam Weib ist eine Krone ihres Mannes; aber eine böse ist wie Eiter in seinem Gebein. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yon bon madanm se yon lwanj li ye pou mari li. Men, yon madanm ki fè mari l' wont, se tankou yon maladi k'ap manje ou nan zo. |
| Hungarian | Az igazaknak gondolatjaik igazak; az istentelenek tanácsa csalás. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Istri yang baik adalah kebanggaan dan kebahagiaan suaminya, istri yang membuat suaminya malu adalah bagaikan penyakit tulang yang menggerogoti. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seorang bini yang baik budi ia itu seolah-olah makota lakinya, tetapi bini yang mendatangkan malu, ia itu seperti bisa dalam tulang-tulangnya. |
| Italian | La donna perfetta è la corona del marito, ma quella che lo disonora è come carie nelle sue ossa. |
| Maori | ¶ He wahine e u ana tona pai, hei karauna tera ki tana tane; tena ko te wahine i whakama ai ia, hei pirau tera i roto i ona wheua. |
| Norwegian | En god hustru er sin manns krone, men en dårlig er som råttenhet i hans ben. |
| Portuguese | A mulher virtuosa é a coroa do seu marido; porém a que procede vergonhosamente é como apodrecimento nos seus ossos. |
| Rumanian | O femeie cinstitq este cununa bqrbatului ei, dar cea care -i face ruwine este ca putregaiul kn oasele lui. - |
| Russian | дПВТПДЕФЕМШОБС ЦЕОБ--ЧЕОЕГ ДМС НХЦБ УЧПЕЗП; Б РПЪПТОБС--ЛБЛ ЗОЙМШ Ч ЛПУФСИ ЕЗП. |
| Spanish | La mujer virtuosa es corona de su marido, pero la mala es como carcoma en sus huesos. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shame": shamed, shamefaced, shamefacedly, shamefacedness, shamefacednesses, shamefast, shameful, shamefully, shamefulness, shamefulnesses, shameless, shamelessly, shamelessness, shamelessnesses, shames. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shame": beshame, outshame. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shame": ashamed, ashamedly, beshamed, beshames, outshamed, outshames, unashamed, unashamedly, unshamed. (additional references) | |
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"Shame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahime, Bhamo, oshimai, samek, samet, samme, samo, scham, schame, Schramme, sdame, shace, shae, Shakma, shamag, shamal, Shambe, Shameem, Shameer, Shamela, shamen, Shamey, shami, Shamim, shamma, Shammai, shamp, Shamser, shamu, shamy, shana, Shanab, shance, shane, Shange, shani, shanke, Shante, Sharmi, Shate, shawe, shawm, shaye, shaymen, shaze, sheem, shema, Shemau, sheme, Shemer, shemp, shemu, shima, shime, shimey, shimi, shimme, Shiomi, shmoe, Shoane, shoma, shome, Shomer, shyme, siame, Siham, slame, spame, stame, swame, Tshombe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shame" (pronounced shā"m) |
| 2 | -ā" m | acclaim, aflame, aim, ballgame, became, blame, name, overcame, postgame, proclaim, came, claim, Dame, declaim, defame, disclaim, exclaim, fame, flame, frame, game, inflame, lame, maim, reclaim, rename, same, tame. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: haems, hames. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-m-s" | |
-1 letter: ahem, haem, haes, hame, hams, hems, maes, mash, mesa, mesh, same, seam, sham, shea. | |
-2 letters: ash, ems, hae, ham, has, hem, hes, mae, mas, sae, sea, sha, she. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, am, as, eh, em, es, ha, he, hm, ma, me, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-m-s" | |
+1 letter: almehs, ashmen, harems, maches, mahoes, mashed, masher, mashes, mashie, sachem, samech, samekh, schema, shamed, shames, shmear. | |
+2 letters: anthems, ashamed, atheism, beamish, beshame, chamise, chasmed, haemins, hakeems, hamates, hamlets, hammers, hampers, hamster, hareems, harmers, heaumes, hetmans, homages, humates, lamedhs, maihems, manches, marches, marshes, mashers, mashies, matches, mayhems, mesarch, meshuga, messiah, mishear, ohmages, sachems, samechs, samekhs, schemas, schmear, shamble, shammed, shammer, shammes, shmears, smashed, smasher, smashes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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