Ordering dessert at a restaurant with a group of friends/co-workers, only to recoil in horror as the others all politely decline. The shame reaches new heights once your order arrives and you have to eat it amongst the hawk-like gaze of everyone else at your table.

The dessert shame really kicked in as the rest of the office sat down to watch my brownie- eating performance.

Dessert shame by Mrmacho June 28, 2015

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Shame-splaining

Shaming or otherwise guilting another party for not sharing the same belief or value system as yourself in an attempt to alter their opinion. This can involve haphazard labeling, or insults of the cursory nature.

James engaged in shame-splaining by calling Pete narrow-minded for his beliefs on gun control, before expressing how gun control should work and how wrong Pete was.

Shame-splaining by ModernMichael May 26, 2020

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Name Shame

To use someone's birth name as a pejorative term. The main example of this is the common birth name Karen which is now used as a synonym for racist/bitch. Since 2020, use of the name Karen has expanded and is now commonly used to insult any woman with whom one disagrees. Women and girls who are actually named Karen have been subject to verbal and physical harassment due to the trend of name shaming.

Here is an example of name shame using the name Karen: "I told that Karen to shut up or I'd hit her in the face again."

Name Shame by more tea less patriarchy June 23, 2021

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shameful display

when your men are running from the battlefield. shouted by overzealous samurai retainers.

*bow ashigaru fighting warrior monks*

ashigaru: owp, we're fucked, time to leg it

general's assistant: our men are running from the battlefield! SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!

shameful display by robert jonson May 16, 2011

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