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ASHAMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
Example:
felt ashamed of my torn coat
Classified under:
Similar:
discredited; disgraced; dishonored; shamed (suffering shame)
embarrassed; humiliated; mortified (made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride)
guilty; hangdog; shamed; shamefaced (showing a sense of guilt)
shamefaced; sheepish (showing a sense of shame)
Also:
penitent; repentant (feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds)
Antonym:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
Context examples:
Well, I don’t know why I shouldn’t, for there’s no cause for me to be ashamed of it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Because of the things he had done, they looked for him to appear again in the council, but he never came, and they were ashamed to ask.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He spoke so cheerfully, looked so sincere, and seemed so glad to give his all, that I was ashamed of myself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
No, he doesn't, for Arthur tried twice to make a chance, and I helping him all I could; I am not ashamed to say it now.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then the father fell into a rage and said: Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You are not afraid of being supposed ashamed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
How do you explain it, and ain’t you ashamed to see your men go down like this?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Well, now, Jim, I've lived that rough as you'd be ashamed to hear of. Now, for instance, you wouldn't think I had had a pious mother—to look at me?” he asked.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
