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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of abash.
- adj. Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of abash.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
Etymologies
- Middle English abaishen, to lose one's composure, from Old French esbahir, esbahiss- : es-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + baer, to gape; see bay2.
Examples
“Do I interrupt a rehearsal?" he asked; but there was nothing in the way he walked across the room to Hilda Howe to suggest that the idea abashed him.”
“[28] Mr. Bain (` The Emotions and the Will, 'p. 64) has discussed the "abashed" feelings experienced on these occasions, as well as the stage-fright of actors unused to the stage.”
“Lanon de Larenaudiere, Président du Tribunal, &c. It is not possible for me to convey to you a notion of the warmth, cordiality, and joyousness of heart, that marked the reception which this gentleman instantly gave me: and I will frankly own that I was as much "abashed" as ever our ancient friend Caxton had been -- in the presence of his patroness the Duchess of”
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
“But at least DeNiro has the grace to look abashed, which is more than can be said about Pacino (”
“I spent the ride home abashed and fuming at myself, and at Mary, and at the confusion I felt again with this case.”
“Once, the director says, he was editing the little-girl-in-the-well scene—a staple of Burmeister productions—when he was abashed to discover that he had inadvertently shot the girl standing alongside the firemen outside the hole.”
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“The sun had an angry look, and a few light, fleecy "nigger-heads" in that quarter seemed abashed and frightened and soon disappeared.”
“What did you think of the —" He hesitated, abashed at his first attempt to use a strange word.”
“Nothing abashed him, nor was he appalled by the display and culture and power around him.”
“He was speechless and abashed, and could only stare at her face, which was white with anger.”
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Words containing "she" but excluding words beginning with "she"
usher, ashen, eggshell, freshen, bolshevik, woodshed, abashed, whirling dervishes, usherettes, diminishes, quashed, unsheathed and 51 more...
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Falstaffian, drumble, despond, grotesque, élan, anile, feal, smart aleck, phat, blowsy, haver, hoary and 18 more...
Noelle Knight "Oh, you've heard that before," I said, a little abashed. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas Dec 10, 2010