{"id":109,"date":"2013-04-26T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:24:18","slug":"shame-shameless-and-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/shame-shameless-and-shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame, Shameless and Shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"
Let\u2019s look at the root word \u2018shame\u2019 and explore its common uses.<\/div>\n
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Shame<\/b> = sad feeling, guilt, or embarrassment.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m ashamed (of you\/us\/myself<\/b>) = I\u2019m embarrassed and perhaps dishonored.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ashamed to admit that it was me who stole the winning lotto ticket from you.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Shame on you!<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>= Scolding another person for a shameful act.\u00a0 <\/span>The meaning is you should feel shame and embarrassment\/regret for whatever you just did.<\/div>\n
\u201cI see that you have been gambling away all our money again!\u00a0 <\/span>Shame on you!\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Shameless<\/b> = no shame when they should have\/feel some.\u00a0 <\/span>Opposite of shameful.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe criminal smiled shamelessly in court as the victims read their impact statements.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s (such) a shame<\/b>= It\u2019s too bad, it\u2019s a pity.\u00a0 <\/span>Not necessarily meant to embarrass anyone; can be used just to politely express disappointment.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame you can\u2019t stay longer and watch the UFC fights tonight with us.\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019ll miss you.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a shame you\u2019re not legal drinking age yet, but next year we can party together!\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a real shame that you feel you are entitled to better service than us.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>(Meant to embarrass or shame someone).<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s so shame<\/b> = This phrase is grammatically incorrect!<\/em>\u00a0<\/em> <\/span>Do not<\/span> use it.<\/div>\n
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Try them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s look at the root word \u2018shame\u2019 and explore its common uses. Shame = sad feeling, guilt, or embarrassment. I\u2019m ashamed (of you\/us\/myself) = I\u2019m embarrassed and perhaps dishonored. \u201cI\u2019m ashamed to admit that it was me who stole the winning lotto ticket from you.\u201d Shame on you!\u00a0 = Scolding another person for a shameful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[535,537],"tags":[555,576],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-esl","tag-vocabulary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}