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abashed

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adj/əˈbæʃt/
  1. 1

    Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

    • The scanty garments of fig-leaves with which our abashed first parents sought to conceal their nakedness.
    • So spake the Lord Goldry Bluszco, standing in great pride and splendour beneath the starry canopy, and scowling terribly on the Ambassador from Witchland, so that the Ambassador was abashed and his knees smote together.
verb/əˈbæʃt/
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of abashform-ofparticiplepast

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