Crossword-Solution: SHAME 5 letters, 217 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Shame	n.	A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
Shame	n.	Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
Shame	n.	The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
Shame	n.	The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
Shame	v. t.	To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
Shame	v. t.	To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
Shame	v. t.	To mock at; to deride.
Shame	n.	To be ashamed; to feel shame.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHAME	anagram	AHEMS, ESHAM, HAMES, MESHA, SHEMA

We have 217 clues for the answer “SHAME”

Clue	Answers
"... fool me twice, ___ on me"	1 answer
"A Low Down Dirty ___" (1994)	1 answer
"Ah, that's a ___" ("How unfortunate")	1 answer
"Ain't That a ___" (Fats Domino hit)	1 answer
"Ain't That a _____"	1 answer
"Ain't it a ___!"	1 answer
"Aw, what a ___"	1 answer
"Fool me once, ___ . . .	1 answer
"Fool me once, ___ on you . . ."	1 answer
"Fool me once, ___ on you; fool me twice, ___ on me"	1 answer
"For --!": How could you!	1 answer
"For ___!" ("Tsk, tsk!")	1 answer
"Hang your head!"	1 answer
"Have you no ___?!"	1 answer
"It's a pity, that"	1 answer
"The ___ of the Cities," book by Steffens	1 answer
"Too bad, huh?"	1 answer
"You can be better"	1 answer
"You should be embarrassed!"	1 answer
"___ has poor memory": Gabriel García Márquez	1 answer
"___ on you!"	1 answer
1983 Salman Rushdie novel	1 answer
Aristotle's "ornament to the young"	1 answer
Bad thing to be put to	1 answer
Bad thing to bring one's family	1 answer
Blush cause	1 answer
Blusher's emotion	1 answer
Blusher's emotion, perhaps	1 answer
Cause of reddening, perhaps	1 answer
Cause redness	1 answer
Cause to turn red, perhaps	1 answer
Emotion often paired with guilt	1 answer
Emotion related to guilt	1 answer
Extreme embarrassment	1 answer
Feeling of humiliation	1 answer
Feeling related to guilt	1 answer
Finger wagger's admonition	1 answer
Finger wagger's cry	1 answer
Finger-wagger's word	1 answer
Finger-wagging reprimand	1 answer
Finger-wagging word	1 answer
Flush causer	1 answer
Great embarrassment	1 answer
Head-hanging emotion	1 answer
Helping of humble pie	1 answer
Humiliated feeling	1 answer
It causes redness	1 answer
It may cause you to hang your head	1 answer
It's similar to guilt	1 answer
Jezebel's lack	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAREE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHAME (5)

Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: “It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.” She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer, until a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

But when Hiawatha saw him Slowly rising through the water, Lifting up his disk refulgent, Loud he shouted in derision, “Esa! esa! shame upon you! You are Ugudwash, the sun-fish, You are not the fish I wanted, You are not the King of Fishes!” Slowly downward, wavering, gleaming, Sank the Ugudwash, the sun-fish, And again the sturgeon, Nahma, Heard the shout of Hiawatha, Heard his challenge of defiance, The unnecessary tumult, Ringing far across the water.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Nor those mysterious parts were then conceald, Then was not guiltie shame, dishonest shame Of natures works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how have ye troubl’d all mankind With shews instead, meer shews of seeming pure, And banisht from mans life his happiest life, Simplicitie and spotless innocence.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with SHAME (3)

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, …

Brene Brown The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

Steve Harvey Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?

Jim Anderson Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 249 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).