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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

ashamed

/əˈʃeɪmd/

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What does ashamed mean?

adjective

  1. Feeling shame or guilt.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of ashame

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IPA pronunciation

/əˈʃeɪmd/

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For--you would have thought men would have been ashamed of themselves--no soul would consent to return with us to the Admiral Benbow.
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #120
When the strange idea flashed across her that his words had reference to himself, she was incredulous, and ashamed of entertaining it.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
More book examples (3)
“I don’t know that it would make it any better if he did something to make us all ashamed,” said Mrs. Morel.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
The poor youth was so ashamed of his cowardice that he afterward admitted his first thought was to take his own life.
Charles A. EastmanIndian Heroes and Great ChieftainsProject Gutenberg ebook #336
I was obliged to confess--I felt ashamed, even of being at this disadvantage before Littimer--that Miss Mowcher and I were wholly unacquainted.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766