abashing

present participle of abash

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abashing
Verb
  • The Bears lost this matchup in embarrassing fashion last year as the Commanders completed a Hail Mary with time expiring.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The games themselves are embarrassing enough to watch.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This brings the total to more than $2 million raised to influence the outcome of Referendum 310, funding a wave of misleading ads aimed at confusing voters.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The British and American versions also have different plot points, further confusing the matter, but the score has endured and developed a cult-following.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Caleb MutuaVinícius Andrade BankingBankruptcy Top investment bank CEO says he was ‘defrauded’ by the bankruptcy that’s rattling Wall Street.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • McClung has almost singlehandedly revived the Slam Dunk Contest with his imaginative arsenal of rim-rattling highlights, but has yet to consistently crack an NBA rotation.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The code, though, is currently often replete with disconcerting troubles.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Abashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abashing. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on abashing

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!