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ashamed
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of persons; feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat" [syn: ashamed(p) ] [ant: unashamed ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English asceamed "feeling shame, filled with shame," past participle of ascamian "to feel shame," from a- intensive prefix + scamian "be ashamed, blush; cause shame" (see shame (v.)). The verb is obsolete, but the past participle lives on. Meaning "reluctant ...
Usage examples of ashamed.
Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.
My voice had an accent of forced bravery in it, and I was ashamed of my paltry stratagem.
He was so ashamed of breaking ahimsa that his body fell slack and the other boys managed to pin him to the floor.
If a feeling of modesty does not deter you from shewing yourself tender, loving, and full of amorous ardour with me in his presence, how could I be ashamed, when, on the contrary, I ought to feel proud of myself?
First Consort, andlet us continue to call him Noyokithis man Noyoki was the last son of the Third Consort, who would be ashamed to have given birth to him were she still alive.
He stared at the dim armory, ashamed of the way he had treated the only man who had remained his friend throughout this whole mess.
As he arose, he found himself clutching the relic of the Saint behind him as if ashamed to display it.
I guess Elnora was ashamed all right, for to-night she stopped at the old case Duncan gave her, and took out that pail, where it had been all day, and put a napkin inside it.
Belle and Jimmy had given up chasing the dog, and angry and ashamed, stood waiting half a block away.
I am ashamed to go to him in splendid condition and admit that I was having such a fine time I forgot to come home.
He was ashamed to revel in sweetmeats alone, and as he was fond of his gray-haired landlady, a woman old as the hills, he would share them with her.
Sefakas had been relieved at getting him out of the house, for he was ashamed to call him son.
He knew for what purpose his guest had come, and was ashamed to appear before him pale and debilitated.
And yet he felt ashamed that he, as pasha, had not the courage to order a halt, to strike the knives from the hands of the agas.
At first they had been ashamed, because they were not used to begging but hunger had compelled them.