ashamed

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ashamed
    adj 1: feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are
           you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn
           coat" [ant: {unashamed}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ashamed \A*shamed"\, a. [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.]
   Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a
   conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or
   impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." --Wyclif.
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         All that forsake thee shall be ashamed.  --Jer. xvii.
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         I began to be ashamed of sitting idle.   --Johnson.
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         Enough to make us ashamed of our species. --Macaulay.
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         An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of
         those present.                           --Darwin.
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   Note: Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it
         qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the
         Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ashamed":
      abashed, abject, blushing, chagrined, chapfallen,
      conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen,
      crushed, discomfited, embarrassed, full of remorse, hangdog,
      humbled, humiliated, mean, mortified, out of countenance, penitent,
      red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, repining, rueful,
      self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing,
      self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing,
      self-reproaching, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful,
      sheepish, sorry, unhappy about, wistful

    

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