The word "abashed" is correct and usable in written English.
It means feeling embarrassed or ashamed and is usually used when someone's confidence has been shaken. Example sentence: After forgetting her lines on stage, she was abashed and sank down onto her chair.
Moreover, they do not seem seriously abashed by the outcome of the war in Iraq.
One might have expected some humility on their part, as most of them received hefty donations from the Houston company, just last year ranked seventh in the Fortune 500, but few seem abashed by this.
He continued to have a grudging respect for some Polish communists, including his liberator Cyrankiewicz, but he was flattered rather than abashed when his accounts of the evils of Soviet communism persuaded his students to dub him "McCarthyski .As an academic, Mr Karski wrote a lot on the treatment of Poland during and after the war.
The interviewer is increasingly abashed.
But he was not abashed for long.
The Count, abashed, is forced to beg his wife's forgiveness.
If Collingwood is abashed he does not show it.
Some players respond to such a shock to the nervous system with cold, carefully nuanced diligence which signals comfort amidst chaos; others recoil, abashed by the magnitude of the occasion and the importance of the result.
The success of Bostons Angel at Cheltenham last March was immediately dismissed as gutsy opportunism, the eventual protagonists having staggered up the hill as though abashed by their inferiority to rivals who had variously run below form, or failed to get round.
Personal Affairs – a bit of chick-lit bubblegum for BBC3 about four PAs in a city bank – isn't abashed about its influences.
(She famously told the Daily Mail interviewer that "Bron and I realised that if I could get some crotchless tights it would make my social life easier. Auberon volunteered to go to a sex shop and he came back, very pleased, with the tights. Nothing abashed him").
