ashamingly

comparative more ashamingly · superlative most ashamingly

1. rareIn an ashaming manner.

   “Germans only” is an ashamingly frequent requirement. But most of Frau Heiermeier’s customers are foreign students.

   1989 October 29 [1989 October 13], Dirk Kurbjuweit, “Student life: It’s still not too bad — but only if you can find a place to live”, in The German Tribune: A Weekly Review of the German Press, number 1393, →ISSN, page 12, column 3

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   “Where you been, my dear roommate to-night, after supper? Did you have daily exchange of stories with your girl?” / “No, Yeah, little bit.” He hesitated, but not ashamingly, and he looked feeling good.

   1924 February, Richard Shiokawa, “I Said That College is a Treasure Island, Why?”, in Hal A. Oliver, editor, The Trinity Archive, volume XXXVI, number 5, Durham, N.C.: The Senior Class of Trinity College, page 234, column 1

   The entire historic jigsaw puzzle had too many pieces that didn’t fit; too confusing for us to understand or ashamingly disgraceful for us to want to understand. We wanted the Vietnam veteran to politely go away — to get lost.

   1981 April 22, “Belated ‘welcome home’ to Vietnam veterans”, in The Romulus Roman, volume 96, number 2, Wayne, Mich.: Associated Newspapers, Inc., page A-14, column 1

   The system of measures applied against alcoholism in Hungary […] Restricted unemployment aid or allowance (often ashamingly low), nothing more

   1997, Dharam P. Agarwal, Béla Buda, Andrew E. Czeizel, H. Werner Goedde, “Economic Aspects of Alcohol Control Policies in Hungary”, in Alcohol Consumption and Alcoholism in Hungary: Ethnocultural, Epidemiological and Biomedical Aspects, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, part III (Epidemiology of Alcoholism), chapter 5 (Epidemiology of Alcoholism in Hungary), page 65

   Ashamingly, the only quantum fields that we fully understand to date in four dimensions are free quantum fields on four-dimensional Minkowski space. Formulated more provocatively: In four dimensions we only understand an (infinite) collection of uncoupled harmonic oscillators on Minkowski space !

   2001 October 5, T[homas] Thiemann, “Why Quantum Gravity in the 21st Century ?”, in Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity, →OCLC, arXiv, Introduction, subsection 1 (Defining Quantum Gravity), page 10