HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ashamed
/əˈʃeɪmd/
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What does ashamed mean?
adjective
- Feeling shame or guilt.
verb
- 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.
When the strange idea flashed across her that his words had reference to himself, she was incredulous, and ashamed of entertaining it.
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“I don’t know that it would make it any better if he did something to make us all ashamed,” said Mrs. Morel.
The poor youth was so ashamed of his cowardice that he afterward admitted his first thought was to take his own life.
I was obliged to confess--I felt ashamed, even of being at this disadvantage before Littimer--that Miss Mowcher and I were wholly unacquainted.