All 5 Uses of
abashed
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'The four elder sisters cast down their eyes as if abashed by the holy man's reproof, but Alice raised hers, and bent them mildly on the friar.†
Chpt 6 *
- 'It was only my joke,' said the friend, abashed.†
Chpt 14
- And now, there he sat, with the remains of a beard at least a week old encumbering his chin; a soiled and crumpled shirt-frill crouching, as it were, upon his breast, instead of standing boldly out; a demeanour so abashed and drooping, so despondent, and expressive of such humiliation, grief, and shame; that if the souls of forty unsubstantial housekeepers, all of whom had had their water cut off for non-payment of the rate, could have been concentrated in one body, that one body could…†
Chpt 52
- 'If I had not had,' said Ralph, in no way abashed by the reminder, 'do you think I should have helped you?'†
Chpt 56
- 'He says,' replied the woman, abashed by his harshness, 'that he comes on very particular business which admits of no excuse; and I thought perhaps it might be about—'†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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(abashed) to be embarrassed or self-conscious