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She looked abashed when she realized she had called his teacher by the wrong name.abashed = embarrassed or unsettled
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She was abashed by the unexpected praise and didn’t know what to say.
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"Ha!" said Harry under his breath, pleased to see Draco looking both abashed and angry. (source)abashed = embarrassed
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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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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
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"I'm speechless," said the Count with unabashed pride. (source)unabashed = not embarrassed or self-consciousstandard 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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I with front abash'd replied.† (source)
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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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"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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He glanced over at Theon and quickly looked away, abashed.† (source)abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
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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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Abash'd before him I appear, And say to all things only, yes.† (source)
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"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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