Your children were stealing my fruit last night, and acting shamefully afterward.

I have done very badly in this matter; I have acted shamefully, and I am ashamed, but--

You have acted shamefully, cruelly, Caroline, and I will tell you what I think, angry as it may make you.

For there is not any one sober to virtue; but we all stagger up and down, acting shamefully and living miserably.

"Oh, I know I have acted shamefully," I said.

"If I speak strongly, it is because I think you acted shamefully in permitting this disgraceful butchery."