abashment

Example Sentences

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Some of this has to do with Bayer’s performance — she nails Joanna’s blend of arrogance and abashment with an ace sketch comic’s facility.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

He does so with such spontaneous abashment that I’d swear this had never happened to him before.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2019

He had taken his runway bow with Mr. Osborne with a sweet look of aw-shucks abashment, and backstage after the show seemed to still be taking it all in.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2014

Revocation of his American Express card would have been a more consequential abashment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hostess regarded him first with disgust—then with fury—then with astonishment—then, finally, with abashment.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson