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The phrase "ashamed for having" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing regret or embarrassment about a past action or behavior.
Example: "She felt ashamed for having lied to her best friend."
Alternatives: "embarrassed about having" or "regretful for having".
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People won't feel ashamed for having suicidal thoughts when they're treated as people, instead of pariahs.
Harry van Bommel, a member of the Dutch Parliament, told a Dutch-based Persian radio station that his country should be ashamed for having allowed the concert to take place while "protesters were hanged in Iran".
"Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more," she once wrote in the New York Times.
In the UK, when David Cameron recently resigned as prime minister he was not ashamed for having called a referendum he lost but "proud of the fact that in these islands we trust the people for these big decisions".
When I was initially diagnosed with PTSD, I felt ashamed for having become ill.
I was ashamed for having revealed softness in the presence of my oppressor.
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"What does he do for the black people?" Sterling added that Johnson should be "ashamed of himself" for having H.I.V., and suggested that he was a terrible role model for children.
Before this can happen, Oswald tells his mother that he's contracted syphilis, of which he is mortally ashamed, not least for having let down his father's memory.
I started tallying up my blessings and realized I had so much to be thankful for, that I became ashamed of myself for having wallowed in holiday self-pity.
And so into work I went ― feeling fragile, feeling a little bit less than capable, and feeling ashamed and anxious for having requested the time off that I thought would have been accepted in the first place.
During my own divorce, I was told that "[I] should be ashamed of myself for having stayed at home all of those years with my children, and not gone out and gotten a 'real job'," an attitude that was omnipresent even with my own lawyers and presiding judges.
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