abashed

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They are now out of pocket, short on players and, perhaps, abashed at their complicity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

“We have quite a lot of work to do,” Chiappe says, looking somewhat abashed.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

Jarreau continues and Belafonte remains slightly abashed until his smile broadens, as if he's accepting his signature tune's supernaturally unifying power.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2023

He said: "We are not going to be in any way deterred or abashed by some of the criticism that is being directed upon this policy, some of it from slightly unexpected quarters."

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2022

Then abashed and as though he had never seen the girl before he went slowly out, hanging his head over his fine clothes, and his eyes looking here and there, but never ahead.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck