vergonzosamente

adv.

shamefully, bashfully; confoundedly.

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vergonzosamente

► adverbio

1 shamefully, ignominiously

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ADV

1) (=con timidez) bashfully, shyly; (=con modestia) modestly

2) (=deshonrosamente) shamefully, disgracefully

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= sheepishly, self-consciously, disgracefully, shamefully, abjectly, embarrassingly.

Ex. 'Trouble slithering underfoot in the Garden of Eden?', the librarian shook his head sheepishly.

Ex. 'Thanks a bunch!' he said, smiling self-consciously.

Ex. The increasing efficiency of machine printing did reduce the average price of reprints and of popular works but new literature remained disgracefully expensive.

Ex. He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.

Ex. The author examines the dominance of liberal anticommunism in McCarthyism, when professed liberals 'abjectly betrayed their own principles'.

Ex. Teaching lost its status when education became secularized as a tool for economic mobility, when concerns for the spiritual became embarrassingly atavistic.

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= sheepishly, self-consciously, disgracefully, shamefully, abjectly, embarrassingly.

Ex: 'Trouble slithering underfoot in the Garden of Eden?', the librarian shook his head sheepishly.

Ex: 'Thanks a bunch!' he said, smiling self-consciously.

Ex: The increasing efficiency of machine printing did reduce the average price of reprints and of popular works but new literature remained disgracefully expensive.

Ex: He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.

Ex: The author examines the dominance of liberal anticommunism in McCarthyism, when professed liberals 'abjectly betrayed their own principles'.

Ex: Teaching lost its status when education became secularized as a tool for economic mobility, when concerns for the spiritual became embarrassingly atavistic.

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vergonzosamente

adverb

A (tímidamente) shyly, bashfully

B (ignominiosamente) disgracefully, shamefully

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vergonzosamente adv

1. [sin honra] shamefully, disgracefully

2. [con timidez] bashfully