"abashed by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe feeling embarrassed, ashamed, or guilt in a particular situation. For example, "I was abashed by my own mistake and apologized to my professor immediately."
Moreover, they do not seem seriously abashed by the outcome of the war in Iraq.
Crockett is slightly abashed by having to coexist with his own myth -- but only slightly.
Wong is less abashed by the insanely beautiful than any other current director.
Gandolfini was slightly abashed by his performance, and admitted writing to Panetta to apologise.
Perhaps Mercury was abashed by Moroder's moustache, which back in the disco days was even more luxuriant than his own.
Have Christie and other politicians begun to feel, if not ashamed, then abashed by their opposition to marriage equality?
It's uttered, with abashed conviction, by the hardworking Piper Perabo, who plays the youngest-looking F.B.I. agent in film history.
Only a dreamer, or a fool, or a highly educated peer of the realm whose own cultural standards float far beyond reproof, would imagine that British readers, abashed and chastened by this report, will suddenly forego their interest in the sexual scores of soccer players, or in the nimbus of wild grief that causes the families of murder victims to become even more absorbing than the perpetrators.
Like Hugh Grant redeeming himself on the Leno show by acting abashed after he was caught with a hooker, Mr. Affleck arrived with a transparent goal: to make viewers admire his self-deprecating wit and honesty.
On campus, students were abashed, if not a bit fatigued by the notoriety.
Ward's were abashed the following day to be rebuked by scores of ladies who wrote in to say that, upon Miss McBride's advice, they had indeed stuffed their turkies with Ward's crumbs.
