The phrase
"shameful episode" means a situation or event that is embarrassing or disgraceful.
Full definition
Our duty to love our neighbours regardless of their racial and family backgrounds, following Jesus» teaching and example, will shape how Christians understand and respond to this distressing and
shameful episode in our national life.
The film's overall dramatization of an alarming and
shameful episode of the Bush administration makes one very angry to know how callously and ultimately unpatriotically political power can be wielded.
Despite the fact that Apple was the one nailed by the court, what really underlies this
whole shameful episode is panic in the publishing industry.
It has been
a shameful episode in American history, already replete with extremist groups out to exploit and harm.
In Scorched Earth, the detritus of Leimert Park is repurposed to represent
a shameful episode in US history: in Bradford's hands, the paper fragments tell other, deeper stories.