Sample Sentences for
abashed
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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
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    I mumbled some abashed answer, but it was Phineas who made the clear response.  (source)
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    Lieutenant Issaaia looked calm and unconcerned, but felt abashed.†  (source)
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    The old man admired Tanna desperately, and in her presence he became abashed, abrupt.†  (source)
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    "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.
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    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)
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    In Paths Untrodden In paths untrodden, In the growth by margins of pond-waters, Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities, Which too long I was offering to feed my soul, Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul, That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades, Here by myself away from the clank of the world, Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic, No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,) Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest, Resolv'd to†  (source)
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    "Nawsuh," he said, simulating abashment.†  (source)
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    Before Angus appeared, Martin had to wait a quarter-hour in a smaller, richer, still more abashing reception-room.†  (source)
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    Abashed, Robb sheathed his sword, suddenly a child again.†  (source)
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    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
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    The stare seemed to abash Poirot.†  (source)
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    This sudden case* the man astonied so, *event That red he wax'd, abash'd,* and all quaking *amazed He stood; unnethes* said he wordes mo', *scarcely But only thus; "Lord," quoth he, "my willing Is as ye will, nor against your liking I will no thing, mine owen lord so dear; Right as you list governe this mattere."†  (source)
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