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Narrator: Today's word is "Shamefully" — adverb, pronounced /ˈʃeɪmfəli/, with the stress on "shame".
Narrator: Shamefully means in a way that is disgraceful or deserves shame.
Narrator: In plain English, it means very badly and wrongly.
Narrator: It comes from shameful plus -ly.
Narrator: A common collocation is "shamefully neglected", which describes something badly ignored.
Narrator: It differs from "sadly", because shamefully blames someone for the wrong.
Narrator: In a second sense, "shamefully low" describes amounts that are unfairly small.
Narrator: Journalism, politics, ethics and reviews all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: shamefully means disgracefully.
Speaker A: Why is the old library closing?
Speaker B: It was SHAMEFULLY neglected! From shameful.
Speaker A: No funding?
Speaker B: For ten years.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Nurses are shamefully underpaid", politics. "The park was shamefully neglected", local news. "They behaved shamefully", criticism.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with one "l" in "-ful" and two in "-fully", "shamefully".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Disgracefully is its cousin, scandalously its twin, and deplorably an alternative — yet shamefully keeps its stern weight!
Speaker B: Let's use "shamefully" in AI prompts — useful for opinion writing and tone checks.
Speaker A: How for opinion?
Speaker B: Strong voice.
Prompt: Write an op-ed opening arguing that carers are shamefully underpaid.
Speaker A: And tone?
Speaker B: Soften.
Prompt: Rewrite this complaint so it does not call staff behaviour shameful.
Speaker A: Could it help campaigns?
Speaker B: Yes, for petitions.
Prompt: Draft a petition about a shamefully neglected local park.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Editing.
Prompt: Find emotive words like shamefully in this report and suggest neutral options.
Shamefully — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary