ashamed
feeling shame; distressed or embarrassed by feelings of guilt, foolishness, or disgrace: He felt ashamed for having spoken so cruelly.
unwilling or restrained because of fear of shame, ridicule, or disapproval: They were ashamed to show their work.
Chiefly Midland U.S. (especially of children) bashful; timid.
Origin of ashamed
1synonym study For ashamed
Opposites for ashamed
Other words from ashamed
- a·sham·ed·ly [uh-shey-mid-lee], /əˈʃeɪ mɪd li/, adverb
- a·sham·ed·ness, noun
- half-a·shamed, adjective
- half-a·sham·ed·ly, adverb
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How to use ashamed in a sentence
The old warning was, “Don’t do anything you would be ashamed to see on the front page of the paper.”
Miss Manners: Shunning, shaming and ‘cancel culture’ | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostI was 10 years old, and I was ashamed of my mother being looked at by so many people.
With ‘The Life Ahead,’ Sophia Loren is approaching her 100th movie. She’s going for much more. | Ann Hornaday | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostPerdue should be ashamed of himself — and he should apologize.
GOP senator falsely claims opponent was endorsed by Communist Party | Glenn Kessler | October 6, 2020 | Washington PostFor a state bearing a bear on its banner, California should be ashamed it hasn’t thought of this first.
Environment Report: County Celebrates Then Sinks Its Climate Plan | MacKenzie Elmer | September 28, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoGo to AFN, he wrote, you did the right thing and have nothing to be ashamed of.
The Woman Propositioned by Alaska’s Former Lieutenant Governor Tells Her Story for the First Time | by Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News | September 10, 2020 | ProPublica
The youthful runaway ashamedly lowered his head—in reality he adored music with all the fulness of his cruel, faunlike nature.
Visionaries | James HunekerShe looked obliquely at her reflection and ran her hands ashamedly up and down her body, and tried for a word and failed.
The Judge | Rebecca WestSecretly, half-ashamedly, are such missives carefully put away.
Norman Ten Hundred | A. Stanley BlicqNell broke from him—half ashamedly, for was she, indeed, blushing?
Nell, of Shorne Mills | Charles Garvice"I'm not thinking of going myself," he said, rather ashamedly.
The Uttermost Farthing | Marie Belloc Lowndes
British Dictionary definitions for ashamed
/ (əˈʃeɪmd) /
overcome with shame, guilt, or remorse
(foll by of) suffering from feelings of inferiority or shame in relation to (a person, thing, or deed)
(foll by to) unwilling through fear of humiliation, shame, etc
Origin of ashamed
1Derived forms of ashamed
- ashamedly (əˈʃeɪmɪdlɪ), adverb
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