An action or situation that causes embarrassment.
it was a shame job in those days to have two children before you were married
Example sentencesExamples
- Our clients will often not want anyone present because it is a shame job.
- To some it doesn't matter; to others it's a shame job.
- A climate can be created in which achievement is regarded as a 'shame job.'
- The Government doesn't want this shame job to continue, and the industry is desperate for these proposals to go ahead.
- The local young fellows call it a shame job in that he was humiliated and made to feel contrition.
- To fail in his rehabilitation efforts would be to disappoint his boss, and Freddie's pride would not permit it. It would be a 'shame job'.
- We had a certain standard to aspire to and it would've been a shame job if we couldn't achieve it
- This has been a vindictive action by certain people and it is a huge shame job on those people.