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ABASHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abashed mean?
• ABASHED (adjective)
The adjective ABASHED has 1 sense:
1. feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed
Familiarity information: ABASHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed
Synonyms:
abashed; chagrined; embarrassed
Context example:
was embarrassed by her child's tantrums
Similar:
discomposed (having your composure disturbed)
Context examples
He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fantastically trimmed dress with an expression that abashed her more than his answer, which had not a particle of his usual politeness in it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then she laughed at him, delighting in his confusion, and as he looked into her frank eyes and knew that she had divined nothing of what he felt, he became abashed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In spite of himself, he appeared abashed by my aunt's indignant tears, and came slouching out of the garden.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was quite abashed by the man’s flowery way of talking—so unlike anything which I had ever heard.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then everybody laughed and jeered at her; and she was so abashed, that she wished herself a thousand feet deep in the earth.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He merely sprang to the side and ran stiffly ahead for several awkward leaps, in carriage and conduct resembling an abashed country swain.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Not that he was abashed.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She wished Beth could hear him, but she did not say so, only praised him till he was quite abashed, and his grandfather came to his rescue.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He hesitated, abashed at his first attempt to use a strange word.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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