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  • He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, "I know it's the vanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord."  (source)
    abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
  • I mumbled some abashed answer, but it was Phineas who made the clear response.  (source)
  • Abashed, Edgar scratched Finch's chest and smoothed the fur over the dog's forehead.†  (source)
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  • It was that his whole demeanor was a tad abashed, even sub missive.†  (source)
    abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
  • "I'm speechless," said the Count with unabashed pride.  (source)
    unabashed = not embarrassed or self-conscious
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabashed means not and reverses the meaning of abashed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I with front abash'd replied.†  (source)
  • It would abash the most cynical, it would terrify the most selfish; and the voice of mockery would be silenced, and fraud and falsehood would slink back into their dens, and the truth would stand forth alone!†  (source)
  • "Nawsuh," he said, simulating abashment.†  (source)
  • Before Angus appeared, Martin had to wait a quarter-hour in a smaller, richer, still more abashing reception-room.†  (source)
  • He glanced over at Theon and quickly looked away, abashed.†  (source)
    abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
  • My mother was obsessed with the poet Nikki Giovanni, in love with her unabashed feminine strength and her reconciliation of love and revolution.  (source)
    unabashed = without embarrassment or self-consciousness
  • Abash'd before him I appear, And say to all things only, yes.†  (source)
  • "Well," Henrietta replied good-humouredly, "if I had not known before that you were trying somehow to abash me I should know it now.†  (source)
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