Vergonzoso in english
Shameful
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
In gestures
vergonzoso1 = shy ; self-conscious ; tongue-tied ; bashful.
Example: One is the written word, letters to LC, and no one is particularly shy on that score nor should be.Example: The girls were wary, nervously self-conscious, quite unable to behave in a natural and relaxed way.Example: The picture he presents is of an intelligent, well-meaning, but tongue-tied monarch, whom he dubs Louis the silent.Example: The book follows Philip's development from a bashful teenager to a more self-assured, but tortured, adult, and finally to a pathetic old man, who often suffered from long bouts of debilitating depression.vergonzoso2 = shameful ; discreditable ; disgusting ; disgraceful ; embarrassing ; dishonouring [dishonoring, -USA] ; cringe-inducing ; cringeworthy ; cringe-making ; toe-curling ; shameless ; ignominious.
Example: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.Example: It is at least arguable that the discreditable popular image is to some extent a reflection of his own self-image, and that the sad irony of the librarian is that people have come to accept him at his own valuation.Example: I find it disgusting but I guess that's human nature.Example: He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.Example: This is highly embarrassing for the innocent reader and for the apologetic library staff.Example: In my opinion it is groundless, deplorable, dishonoring to our father (and to his work, not to mention the people to whom he dedicated his life).Example: The staff Christmas Party is a hot bed of mostly cringe-inducing, and sometimes dismissible, behaviour.Example: The result is a pastiche of the cringeworthy, the harrowing and the hillarious.Example: It is cringe-making to go into a bookshop and ask the sales assistant for pornography.Example: I saw the worst comedy act I've ever seen last night -- it was absolutely toe-curling!.Example: Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.Example: His conviction has brought an ignominious end to his lengthy public career.more:
» de un modo vergonzoso = shamefully .
Example: He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.» fracaso vergonzoso = embarrassing failure .
Example: Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.» ¡qué vergonzoso! = how shameful! ; shame on + Pronombre! .
Example: I would therefore like to stress how shameful is that the United States should have gone so far as to resort to threatening to impose sanctions on the countries = Por lo tanto, me gustaría subrayar lo vergonzoso que resulta que los Estados Unidos hayan llegado al extremo de amenazar a esos países con imponerles sanciones. Example: Shame on her for profiting from her husband's tragic death.» ser vergonzoso = be embarrassing ; be a disgrace .
Example: It was equally embarrassing to see her behave in such an obsequious manner. Example: To most students and collectors, the profession's treatment of these resources is a disgrace.