All 4 Uses of
abashed
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- They admired the diamonds and furs and frosty silverware and mahogany chairs and polished morocco sewing-boxes in shop-windows, and were abashed by the throngs in the department-stores, and were bullied by a clerk into buying too many shirts for Kennicott, and gaped at the "clever novelty perfumes—just in from New York."†
Chpt 17abashed = embarrassed or self-conscious
- She waited for them to look abashed and vacant, so that she might suggest "Androcles."†
Chpt 18 *
- There was an evening when Carol hoped she was going to make a play; a rehearsal during which Guy stopped looking abashed.†
Chpt 18
- Abashed boys slunk into the rear pews and giggled, while milky little girls, up front with their mothers, self-consciously kept from turning around.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
to be embarrassed, unsettled, or ashamed