ashamed
Example Sentences
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Greenlandic staff scurried briskly into the building, looking ashamed to be working for America.
I was devastated, ashamed even, to learn that my brain—the thing responsible for my intellect, which I pride myself on—was defective.
He later told her in a text message: "I'm very ashamed that I grabbed your phone, you started calling him sweetheart, I felt so unwell."
From BBC
“You shouldn’t feel guilty or ashamed about asking them.”
From MarketWatch
“I’m ashamed of you, Boomer,” she said, “calling your own schoolmates an outlaw family.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
