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ashamed

[uh-sheymd]

adjective

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:
before 1000; orig. past participle of earlier ashame (v.) to be ashamed, Middle English, Old English āscamian, equivalent to ā- a-³ + scamian to shame

Related forms

a·sham·ed·ly

[uh-shey-mid-lee] , adverb

a·sham·ed·ness, noun

half-a·shamed, adjective

half-a·sham·ed·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. Ashamed, humiliated, mortified refer to a condition or feeling of discomfort or embarrassment. Ashamed focuses on the sense of one's own responsibility for an act, whether it is foolish, improper, or immoral: He was ashamed of his dishonesty. She was ashamed of her mistake. Humiliated stresses a feeling of being humbled or disgraced, without any necessary implication of guilt: He was humiliated by the king. Both words are used equally in situations in which one is felt to be responsible for the actions of another: Robert felt humiliated by his daughter's behavior. Mom was ashamed of the way I looked. Mortified represents an intensification of the feelings implied by the other two words: She was mortified by her clumsiness.

Antonyms
1, 2. proud.

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Example Sentences

The girl was so ashamed that she did not tell her mother what had happened until she realized she was pregnant.

She kicked herself, ashamed about not having the nerve or the energy to directly address his e-mailed appellation.

The nation and its church were ashamed of themselves.

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The girl was so ashamed that she did not tell her mother what had happened until she realized she was pregnant.

She kicked herself, ashamed about not having the nerve or the energy to directly address his e-mailed appellation.

The nation and its church were ashamed of themselves.

Finally one came forward, shrieking at the others that they should be ashamed.

The authors of this study should be ashamed of themselves.

The design review committee that approved this solution should be ashamed of their judgment.

And for the adults, don't be ashamed to pick up one of the newest books and take a trip down memory lane.

Pica is difficult to detect because patients are often ashamed to admit to such cravings.

She felt ashamed that she hadn't yet finished her second book.

They should show some pride in what they have, not hide it as if ashamed.

People are rarely ashamed of keeping money that they had coming.

The news media should be ashamed of themselves, for the way they treated this family.

LIke one writer mentioned, it makes me ashamed to even be connected with it.

He is a bad man who is ashamed of an honest parentage, because it was poor and humble.

The rest are too ashamed to ever darken his door again.

So do not be ashamed of sometimes using man to include women, or making he do for she.

Humans should be ashamed of their cruelty and greed.

It's wrong, and you should feel deeply, deeply ashamed.

Both the author and the editor need to be called out and should be ashamed that this throw-away sentence ever appeared in print.

If you are a nuclear engineer, you should be ashamed of yourself.

It's a disgrace of an article of which she should be profoundly ashamed.

Bush left office because he made me feel a bit ashamed of my country.

Your mothers would be ashamed that you have forgotten the manners they taught you.

You, despite your enthusiasm, should be ashamed of yourselves.

The contrast between the two books made me feel rather ashamed.

Yes, they should be ashamed of themselves, and they should print some sort of clarification at their first opportunity.

But in the end, the real key imo, is for us to stop being so ashamed.

Every journalist in this country should be ashamed of their profession.

Our founding fathers would be ashamed that this is being done in the name of the government they created.

The media should be ashamed for jumping on this bandwagon.

However, the censorship and repression occurring in our country makes me ashamed.

The history of science suggests that mistakes are not to be ashamed of, but to be embraced.

As a man, these figures make me ashamed of my gender.

Nothing to brag about, but nothing to be ashamed of either.

Nobody should be ashamed of and made to hide the things for which his brother is praised.

She is ashamed to let friends and neighbors know she.

The result holds little in the way of art, or even entertainment, but no one need be ashamed.

Be moderately modest but not ashamed of your own achievements and opinions.

Prosecutors are ashamed of being involved in an acquittal and fear that losing a case will destroy their careers.

As if ashamed of him, his mother lowers a cotton curtain over their two beds.

Pinkwater writes for, and about, people who are not ashamed to look at life a little differently.

He had slipped back to using crack cocaine after being in drug treatment and was ashamed to face his wife and brother.

But after she has a nutritious meal, she's much less ashamed of her condition.

Honestly, if you had a scrap of intellectual integrity you'd be ashamed of this post.

One woman remembers stealing from a schoolmate's cubbyhole and still feels ashamed.

In any case, none of this will end up well, and you will be ashamed of yourself.

Some are ashamed to be part of such an indolent force.

Exposed beams and a brick wall foster the feeling that there's nothing to hide or to be ashamed of in this place.

It makes me ashamed to have been hired in relatively easier times.

Those who are funding them should examine their heads and be ashamed of themselves.

The gloomy, skeptical scholar was surely mistaken, and should feel ashamed of himself.

Canada should not be ashamed of its military history.

He should be ashamed of what he is doing for blatant political, not religious, reasons.

Economist should ashamed with publishing of this misleading article.

And those of you that can propose my suggestion because of your credentials, please don't feel ashamed to do.

Mainstream outlets should be ashamed by the way they report good science poorly and psuedo science at all.

We are not ashamed of being a country poor in natural recourses, including water and oil.

But anyways, you sir, should be ashamed of yourself.

Maybe they do have a whole different set of concept slides with extreme cattle cars but they're ashamed to show them.

If employees are not distracted or ashamed and are comfortable with it, then banning it is legislating morality.

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World English Dictionary

ashamed (əˈʃeɪmd)

—*adj*
1.	overcome with shame, guilt, or remorse
2.	(foll by of) suffering from feelings of inferiority or shame in relation to (a person, thing, or deed)
3.	(foll by to) unwilling through fear of humiliation, shame, etc

[Old English āscamod, past participle of āscamian to shame, from scamushame]

ashamedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

ashamed

O.E. asceamed, pp. of ascamian "to put to shame," from a- intensive prefix + scamian "to put to shame" (see shame). The verb is obsolete, but the pp. lives on.

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