shamer
English
Noun
shamer (plural shamers)
- One who disgraces someone or makes them feel ashamed, especially by public criticism.
- 2021 April 7, Conor Friedersdorf, “The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2021-04-07:
- The longer social-media shamers condemn preferences that the overwhelming majority of people share, the more inevitable the pushback.
- (obsolete) Something which makes someone feel ashamed.
- 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume 5, published 1812, page 284:
- My means and my conditions are no shamers / Of him that owes 'em, (all the world knows that,) / And my friends no reliers on my fortunes.
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