shameful

Preposition: that

police: It is both extraordinary and shameful that the police have chosen to press charges.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

see: I don't see anything particularly shameful about honestly admitting to innovation, actually.

Modifies a noun

• lust: Such godless people ' God has given over, ' the Apostle says, ' to shameful lusts.
• betrayal: Was there ever a more shameful betrayal of the National Church!
• episode: We should be grateful in this shameful episode that we managed to get anything more than the standard tribunal fee.
• neglect: We are increasing transport funding by 45 percent over the next three years to turn around the shameful neglect of the last Government.
• secret: For Lukacs, who knew a great deal about Hegel, his religious views are a shameful secret.
• deed: I have made my footsteps unbecoming by walking in shameful deeds.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: For the truth is that scrapping MPH was an utterly shameful decision.
• absolutely: But the Government's proposed new deals over the car purchase, unfortunately welcomed by union leaders like Tony Woodley, are absolutely shameful.
• rather: Luckily the law didn't get involved but a crowd did gather to watch our rather shameful descent from our heavenly nest.
• truly: No, the only truly shameful thing you can do in this city is to wear a Rangers shirt in a Celtic pub.
• particularly: I don't see anything particularly shameful about honestly admitting to innovation, actually.
• quite: To damage these views for no good reason would be quite shameful.

Infinitive complement

• say: We must say it rather bluntly that Meherally's deceptive methodology is shameful to say the least.
• have: But you are fitted for society, and it is shameful to have you exiled from it.
• make: Tired of waiting It is shameful to make families wait so long for inquest verdicts, says Eric Allison.
• hear: It is so shameful to hear her fluency in English, which is her third language.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: If they were captured they would try to commit suicide because it was considered shameful.
• become: With the war in ex-Yugoslavia, Tito's name has become almost shameful to mention.