abashment
/uh-bash/US // əˈbæʃ //UK // (əˈbæʃ) //
贬损,抛弃,贬值,贬低
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v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed: to abash someone by sneering.
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Examples
The tone was puzzled rather tan harsh, yet Elsie shrank back in sudden abashment.
Mr. Garland accepted the introduction with signs of abashment, but stated his business simply.
He will tell you with pride rather than with abashment that he is an empleado—a State dependent.
A young man with a record clean enough to permit him to look an accusative world in the face without abashment, one would say.
Crimsoning, Alrek fell from his hill of scorn to the valley of abashment.
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