ashamed

[A*shamed·]

When you have done something you know you shouldn't have, or just something embarrassing, you feel ashamed, or remorseful. Don't be ashamed of your unusual dance moves you were the life of the party!

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Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.


a.
Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.


Ashamed

A*shamed" , a. [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.] Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif.
All that forsake thee shall be ashamed.
I began to be ashamed of sitting idle.
Enough to make us ashamed of our species.
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present.
&hand; Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

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Usage Examples

I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

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