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Recent Examples of ashamed Her advice to others facing this journey is to speak openly, accept support, and don’t be ashamed to ask for help. Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 22 June 2025 Up until now, though, those flashbacks, while frustrating, were explaining something about the characters, if crudely: This is why Sister Agnes blames herself; this is why Brian feels so ashamed. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 June 2025 The mother felt ashamed that her son had missed so much school. Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025 And yet the commercial exploitation of family trauma left me feeling deeply uncomfortable and even ashamed, like I was caught holding a ticket stub for the rubbernecking line at a train crash. Evelyn McDonnell 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ashamed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ashamed
guilty
Adjective
  • In 2023, Thomas Martens pleaded guilty to beating Corbett to death with a bat and Molly Martens pleaded no contest, prompting their respective releases from prison in 2024.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2025
  • Just when the families thought the ordeal over, Judge Richard Baumgartner, who'd handled all four state cases, pleaded guilty to official misconduct for buying prescription pills from a probationer in 2011.
    Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 6 July 2025

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“Ashamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashamed. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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