Sentence examples for was abashed from inspiring English sources
adjective
Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
Perhaps Mercury was abashed by Moroder's moustache, which back in the disco days was even more luxuriant than his own.
Staring at the unborn's tiny form on the flickering monitor, I was abashed to find myself weeping.
Once or twice he touched her legs, not lewdly, but she reproached him and he was abashed; he retreated into gloom, wouldn't speak for hours.
If Adam Kwasman was abashed by his Y.M.C.A. mixup, many of his allies don't think that chasing down a busload of kids was a mistake at all.
Lately, I've been browsing through Brad Gilbert's book "Winning Ugly," and I was abashed to encounter my problems as a player reduced to a single pithy axiom, one of Gilbert's Golden Rules: "The strokes that are prettiest in the warm-up are the ugliest under pressure".
If Collingwood is abashed he does not show it.
"She ought to be abashed," Hattie said once.
Mr. Schwartz is abashed to be so self-centered.
On campus, students were abashed, if not a bit fatigued by the notoriety.
WILLIAM R. DECOTA is abashed that he doesn't have a better La Guardia Airport nightmare story.
