shame
noun
the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another.
half-shamed
-
a word derived from
shame.
Example Sentences
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She divined the quiver of half-shamed relief which went through her son.
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
“I wanted to tell him myself,” Elizabeth said with a half-shamed look in her mother’s direction.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
In the man's was a half-shamed pride, as if he exulted in the strength with which he had been able to maintain his will against her supreme effort to overthrow it.
From Within the Law by Bayard Veiller
If Mrs. Heriot had not been too absorbed in Dick Farnborough and Hermione she would have had a moment's pleasure in her handiwork—that half-shamed scrutiny in Jean Dunbarton's face.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
With a mighty effort he threw Dick off from him and stood on guard with an embarrassed, half-shamed, half-indignant laugh.
From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor
