Kept and Shamed

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Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Shamed and kept are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shamed" instead a verb "Kept".

Shamed adjective - Suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.

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Kept and shamed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kept" instead a verb "Shamed".

Nearby Words: shame, shameful, shaming, shamefully

Further rubbing salt in the wound when an interesting development happens with the readers of the claims who kept one of their friend's from being read, so they wouldn't be shamed too.

Source: Creator / Mark Twain
His first scene even depicts him being guilt-shamed by the mother of a Sokovian victim and he presents this to the Avengers as why he thinks they, himself included, need to be kept in check.

Source: Film / Captain America: Civil War
And... Mark of Shame: Felix's scarred back reminds him of his time as a kept-thief, and the scar in his eyebrow is a reminder of his experience being Shamed by a Mob.

Source: Literature / Doctrine of Labyrinths

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