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abashed

/uh-basht/US // əˈbæʃt //UK // (əˈbæʃt) //

羞愧,羞愧难当,羞辱,惭愧

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted: My clumsiness left me abashed.

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Examples

  • I felt relieved for the character, and slightly abashed for rushing to diagnose her with a mental illness.

  • When she came to power in 1978, Britain was a dreary, dreary place: dingy, funereal, abashed, scruffy, feckless.

  • No; there I stood, half-astonished, half-abashed while the Marquise continued on her knees and made her silent orisons.

  • Yielding to the advice of his friends, he put on it a price the amount of which abashed him.

  • The man drew back abashed, perhaps ashamed, for his dark face flushed.

  • If possible, be not abashed by one or two errors at the first plunge—swim on till you have confidence.

  • His colleague looks abashed, like a schoolboy caught in a naughty act.