shame on (someone)

idiom

—used to say that someone should feel sorry for doing something wrong

Shame on you for being so rude.

Examples of shame on (someone) in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Shame on you Allison, shame on your money hungry team. —Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025

Despite this verdict, thousands of people rushed to his defense, calling her a liar and placing the shame on Hand. —Chloe Laws, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2024

Israel has brought shame on Jews like myself who were brought up learning our most common bond as Jews was standing up for the oppressed, not for being the oppressors. —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2024

In one of the best performances of Sissy Spacek’s career (and shame on all the awards-giving bodies who snubbed it), the Oscar winner plays a woman teetering on the edge of sanity, unsure not just of what is happening but when. —Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024

And shame on anyone who publicly or privately regretted that the shooter missed his target. —Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 July 2024

But shame on the country if now, without a pandemic to blame, nursing home residents are harmed because Congress caved to lobbying by the nursing home industry to dismantle CMS’s new staffing rule, rather than working to protect the lives of nursing home residents. —Melissa Batchelor and Diana J. Mason, STAT, 26 July 2024

Kudos to Frankel for bringing a loathsome character to life, shame on his bullies, and congrats on the new ‘do, Mr. Cole). —Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 30 June 2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar isn’t a patch on Asteroid City in terms of humor, scope, or story, and the latter’s omission from the ballot is a shame on the Academy’s part that won’t be helped by throwing a bone at one of Anderson’s shorts. —Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024